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The Electronic Water Cooler

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Early in Marissa Mayer’s tenure as CEO of the troubled web search firm Yahoo, she issued a corporate memorandum [1] calling all work-at-home employees back to the office.

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  1. Yahoo Orders Home Workers Back to the Office, New York Times, February 26, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/technology/yahoo-orders-home-workers-back-to-the-office.html

  2. Jon Gertner, “The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and Great Age of American Innovation,” Penguin Press, NY (2012)

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Dylla, H.F. (2020). The Electronic Water Cooler. In: Scientific Journeys. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55800-0_8

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