Marissa Meyers and her edict ending telecommuting at Yahoo continues to dominate the headlines. Here are the best articles from around the blogosphere I’ve read on this story this week:
- Why Marissa Mayer’s decision to pull Yahoo employees back to the office was likely the right call — from Boy Genius Report
- Telecommuters, The Boss Still Thinks You’re Mowing the Lawn — from Workplace Diva
- Does Telecommuting Hurt Your Career? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- I Love Work from Home — from The Tim Sackett Project
- Year of the Cubicle and the Death of ROWE at Best Buy — from KnowHR Blog
- The Brain at Work and at Home — from Huffington Post
- Don’t worry, the ban on telecommuting won’t become a trend — from Fortune
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Law Professor Lambasts Discrimination Laws And The EEOC — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Is Being On Time an Essential Function of Job? Second Circuit Says Most Times But Not Always — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Random Alcohol Tests Not in Violation of ADA — from ERC Insights Blog
- “Height And Weight” Anti-Discrimination Bill Considered In Utah – Are “Appearance Bias” Laws Far Off? — from Employment Discrimination Report
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Texas Bill To Allow Service of Process Via Facebook — from Shear on Social Media Law
- Cyberloafing at Work? Maybe It Really Just Shows a Lack of Leadership — from TLNT
- How Lawyers Get Their Hands on “Private” Facebook Posts — from Augmented Legality
- The Social Media Checklist for Companies — What Your Clients Should Do, Know and Learn — from Employment & the Law
- BYOD: Not the Party that BYOB Is — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- All work and no play? Mobile wipes out 8-hour workday — from USAToday
HR & Employee Relations
- Keys to ensuring the secrecy of trade secrets — from EmployerLINC
- Saving Lives? We Have a Policy Against That — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Ask Your Coworker on a Date Without Getting Fired — from Lifehacker
- Are Workplace Bullies Violating Criminal Stalking Laws? — from Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
Wage & Hour
- The Interns Are Coming! Is Your Program Complying with Wage and Hour Law? — from BLEG Blog
- Student Externs, Required to Complete Externship in Order to Graduate, Were Not “Employees” — from Overtime Law Blog
- How to pay employees for Daylight Savings Time work — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- 2d Cir: FLSA Does Not Cover Gap Time — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Should Your Employer Pay You For Time Spent Changing Your Clothes? — from Overtime Lawyer Blog
- How Can Congress Improve the FMLA? Let's Count the Ways… — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- It’s time to fix the Family and Medical Leave Act — here are some suggestions. — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
Labor Relations
- Exploited twentysomethings: It’s time for a meetup with the labor movement — from Minding the Workplace
- Chrysler and its employee code of conduct: Next stop—the NLRB? — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
- Labor law another victim of partisan politics — from HR Hero Line