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Cameraview larger   Flailing companies choose wrong target
Troubled companies are clamping down on the resource they can
most easily control: their employees. Yahoo is eliminating the
opportunity to work from home. Best Buy is reexamining its ROWE
program (results-oriented work environment), and is eliminating
400-plus positions.  None of this feels like good market karma.
It feels like micromanagement.  The ideal employee is a smart,
engaged, passionate, self-starter with strong leadership skills.
I am struggling to determine why such an employee would seek
employment at Yahoo or Best Buy, or choose to stay. Talking
heads speak of eliminating deadwood and promoting face-to-face
collaboration. They fail to address commute time, stress and
resentment.  During difficult times, the human tendency is to
find something to c