WIRTW #264 (the “never go to work, part 2” edition)

Marissa Meyers and her edict ending telecommuting at Yahoo continues to dominate the headlines. Here are the best articles from around the blogosphere I’ve read on this story this week:

• Why Marissa Mayer’s decision to pull Yahoo employees back to the office was likely the right call — from Boy Genius Report
• Telecommuters, The Boss Still Thinks You’re Mowing the Lawn — from Workplace Diva
• Does Telecommuting Hurt Your Career? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• I Love Work from Home — from The Tim Sackett Project
• Year of the Cubicle and the Death of ROWE at Best Buy — from KnowHR Blog
• The Brain at Work and at Home — from Huffington Post
• Don’t worry, the ban on telecommuting won’t become a trend — from Fortune

Here’s the rest of what I read this week:

Discrimination

• Law Professor Lambasts Discrimination Laws And The EEOC — from Employment Discrimination Report
• Is Being On Time an Essential Function of Job? Second Circuit Says Most Times But Not Always — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Random Alcohol Tests Not in Violation of ADA — from ERC Insights Blog
• “Height And Weight” Anti-Discrimination Bill Considered In Utah – Are “Appearance Bias” Laws Far Off? — from Employment Discrimination Report

Social Media & Workplace Technology

• Texas Bill To Allow Service of Process Via Facebook — from Shear on Social Media Law
• Cyberloafing at Work? Maybe It Really Just Shows a Lack of Leadership — from TLNT
• How Lawyers Get Their Hands on “Private” Facebook Posts — from Augmented Legality
• The Social Media Checklist for Companies — What Your Clients Should Do, Know and Learn — from Employment & the Law
• BYOD: Not the Party that BYOB Is — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
• All work and no play? Mobile wipes out 8-hour workday — from USAToday

HR & Employee Relations 

• Keys to ensuring the secrecy of trade secrets — from EmployerLINC
• Saving Lives? We Have a Policy Against That — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
• Ask Your Coworker on a Date Without Getting Fired — from Lifehacker
• Are Workplace Bullies Violating Criminal Stalking Laws? — from Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home

Wage & Hour

• The Interns Are Coming! Is Your Program Complying with Wage and Hour Law? — from BLEG Blog
• Student Externs, Required to Complete Externship in Order to Graduate, Were Not “Employees” — from Overtime Law Blog
• How to pay employees for Daylight Savings Time work — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
• 2d Cir: FLSA Does Not Cover Gap Time — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
• Should Your Employer Pay You For Time Spent Changing Your Clothes? — from Overtime Lawyer Blog
• How Can Congress Improve the FMLA? Let's Count the Ways… — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
• It’s time to fix the Family and Medical Leave Act — here are some suggestions. — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider

Labor Relations

• Exploited twentysomethings: It’s time for a meetup with the labor movement — from Minding the Workplace
• Chrysler and its employee code of conduct: Next stop—the NLRB? — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
• Labor law another victim of partisan politics — from HR Hero Line