A detail you would want to have before you came to a conclusion about this:
"At Facebook and a number of other institutions we work with, instructors cannot preclude fitness center users from answering their phones," David Milani, a spokesman for Plus One Health Management, which runs Facebook's gym, told me. He didn't want to tell me a lot more, other than that "there is no doubt that this instructor knew that."
I don't see the issue here. This person's job was not to teach yoga. It was to make employees happier, and to increase Facebook's attractiveness in the job market. Facebook came to believe that the way she conducted her class, while perhaps effective at conveying yoga, made her less effective as an employee perk. End of story. Facebook's role here, to the extent that it invests in yoga classes, is to ensure that whoever is teaching yoga is doing so in the way that maximizes the happiness of its employees.
If you want to command the respect of serious yoga students, don't teach yoga as an employee perk for hire.
Think of it in these terms: people call tech support lines all the time and unleash torrents of the worst rudeness you can imagine. How long do you think a well-run call center would retain a phone support person who chided callers for impoliteness?
"At Facebook and a number of other institutions we work with, instructors cannot preclude fitness center users from answering their phones," David Milani, a spokesman for Plus One Health Management, which runs Facebook's gym, told me. He didn't want to tell me a lot more, other than that "there is no doubt that this instructor knew that."
I don't see the issue here. This person's job was not to teach yoga. It was to make employees happier, and to increase Facebook's attractiveness in the job market. Facebook came to believe that the way she conducted her class, while perhaps effective at conveying yoga, made her less effective as an employee perk. End of story. Facebook's role here, to the extent that it invests in yoga classes, is to ensure that whoever is teaching yoga is doing so in the way that maximizes the happiness of its employees.
If you want to command the respect of serious yoga students, don't teach yoga as an employee perk for hire.
Think of it in these terms: people call tech support lines all the time and unleash torrents of the worst rudeness you can imagine. How long do you think a well-run call center would retain a phone support person who chided callers for impoliteness?