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Working From Home: The End Of Productivity Or The Future Of Work?

Working From Home: The End Of Productivity Or The Future Of Work? Enlarge this image toggle caption Peter Kramer/ASSOCIATED PRESS Peter Kramer/ASSOCIATED PRESS In its bid to reshape itself for the future, Yahoo is returning to a workplace culture of the tech industry's past. Yahoo's HR head Jackie Reses writes: "To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. Sponsor Message Part of the results from a 2012 Citrix survey of what office workers do while they "work" from home arguably support Yahoo's decision. 43 percent of workers said they've watched TV or a movie while teleworking, 35 percent have done household chores, and 28 percent copped to cooking dinner while "working."

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