The new CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer raised some eyebrows this week when she decided staff could no longer work from home. "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home," reads the memo. "Communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices." This may well be, but is the answer to make everyone report in every day? Nancy Dixn responds, "The only reason to come together face-to-face is for people to be in conversation with each other! And real conversation happens all too infrequently in workplaces, as my own research has shown." She presents what she calls the "oscillation principle" defining "an organized conversation, intentionally held to make sense of the circumstances in which organizational members collectively find themselves." How much of this applies to education? Good question .
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