When Yahoo! issued a memo a week ago to call time on home working, they could hardly have imagined how much debate this would provoke.

When we reported the story on Monday, many of you were quick to comment with your thoughts on why Yahoo made this decision, and what it means for other organisations, and for the future of the digital workplace.

Within days, the story was picked up by mainstream news outlets, who questioned the logic of the decision for a high-tech business like Yahoo!

• Guardian: Yahoo chief bans working from home
• BBC: Teleworking – the myth of working from home
• Wall Street Journal: Yahoo ban on working from home is misguided
• Fox News Business: Mayer Mistake? Is Yahoo work-from-home ban a morale killer?
• ZDNet: Why Yahoo’s ‘no home working’ rule will lead us back into the office

Other business leaders quickly waded into the debate, most notably Richard Branson, who wrote a passionate blog post arguing employers should give people the freedom of where to work.

Yahoo!’s move also prompted several stories on how to make a success of home working, including this one in the Guardian. Our favourite, however, was this tongue-in-cheek version from the Daily Mash. More useful advice can be found in Martin White’s excellent research paper on managing virtual teams.

It’s been a busy week for the four Intranetizens – publishing a whopping three posts – but that’s not stopped us from keeping up to speed on the latest news in the world of intranets, web design and the digital workplace.

With intranet pros returning to work after the Christmas break, there’s been a raft of comment and predictions for the year ahead, as well as round ups of 2012 reading.

Fridays mean fish for supper and another summary post of interesting articles from your Intranetizen team. So, what caught our eye this week?

Woot! It’s Friday! What does that mean other than the impending weekend? It means the Intranetizen crew are bringing you the latest summary of amazing reads that graced our iPads this week. Excited yet? You should be!

Friday – you know the drill. Its time for us to share the best of this weeks intranet related interwebery.  All of the Intranetizen crew have been busy in the real world – but we still found time to click a few links and get some knowledge.

Friday again! Where does the time go? An excellent #intranet week this week: Clarks winning the Gold award at the Digital Impact Awards, and the IBF meeting in London. But if you do nothing else this week, catch up on your reading with our selected highlights of the blogs, forums and news sites.