Why Are Best Buy and Yahoo Restricting Stay-At-Home Workers?

Every once in a while, company executives will make a policy that they feel will be most beneficial for the business, despite popular opinion — or even the rest of management’s opinion.

That’s what happened to Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), when CEO Marissa Mayer decided that the stay-at-home workforce could no longer, well, stay at home. What was supposed to be a simple step forward in bringing the company closer together and improving efficiency and productivity is now a hot-button issue in the business world, and Yahoo is facing biting criticisms for suggesting such a thing.

Yahoo fought it off solo for a week or so, but now Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) has joined Yahoo under the proverbial bus, after announcing that there would be more restrictions on its home-based workforce…