Collaboration of convenience? It is an issue many insurance carriers—and just about any American business—has to ask itself when contemplating the value of remote workers to the enterprise.
Much was made of Yahoo's decision to return remote workers to the office and in CEO Marissa Mayer's own work experience this has proven to be the best way to operate. There isn't much doubt that face-to-face connection is the preferred way to collaborate on ideas that could benefit the company.
As our own columnist Paul Rolich writes: "As much as I have enjoyed working from home at different times in my career I think that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer got it right. Google also gets it. They design their campuses and building so that their employees can easily collaborate and work together. Software engineers work best in small groups. And that doesn't mean work from home. Creative solutions require collaboration."
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