Bizarre HR: Yahoo’s HR boss commutes 10,000km to avoid working from home

The very person who helped Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer write the controversial ‘no working from home’ announcement now faces a huge cross-country commute to follow her own rules.

Jacqueline Reses, executive vice president of people and development, is choosing to lead by example by flying between her home in New York – where she lives with her husband and three children – and the Yahoo office in California.

While she could go to Yahoo’s small satellite office in New York, she has instead chosen to put herself through dozens of flights every year, the New York Times reported.

Reses was hired in September by Mayer, and last month the two collectively implemented the controversial memo to ban working from home – which has been both praised and shot down by both employees and the public.

It emerged earlier this month that Mayer made the decision to make the office environment more “collaborative” after she allegedly spied on employee log-ins to see how much Yahoo’s remote workers were slacking off.

According to The Daily Mail, to follow the new house rules Reses now leaves her apartment in Manhattan to fly seven hours to San Francisco to start her working day.

It’s not clear when Reses returns to New York, but it is likely she will commute on Fridays in order to be back in Manhattan for the weekend.

A spokesman for Yahoo told the DM: “We don't discuss internal matters. This isn't a broad industry view on working from home - this is about what is right for Yahoo, right now.”