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I quit, yahoo, in the last 6 months and they were definitely using gmail prior to that.

the_common_man 9y ago
Which of the below do you mean: a) Employees of yahoo using gmail for personal purposes? b) Yahoo, the company, uses gmail c) @yahoo.com will be powered by gmail in the future as a white labeled product? (Each of the above is alarming in it's own way)
- jkoll 9y ago
  It's clearly (b) from the context.
- ams6110 9y ago
  I don't know about Yahoo, but in other organizations I've seen employees using gmail, for work, because it's more convenient than the corporate/enterprise email platform.
  - the_common_man 9y ago
    Sure but it's usually against corporate policy and reason to fire the person. This has happened in companies I have worked in the past. People take print outs and take them outside office. This is against company policy for confidential documents).
    - foo101 9y ago
      What kind of companies are these? I have worked in a dozen companies so far and in not one of them using GMail for personal use was against the corporate policy.
      - praneshp 9y ago
        GP clearly says "gmail, for work". I think a vast majority of companies would fire (at least, call it out as against policy) if you just went ahead and used gmail for work emails because the official one is crappy.
  - empath75 9y ago
    Aol, at least, migrated their corporate email to gmail several years ago. Before that, it was exchange.
J5892 9y ago
When did they switch from forcing all employees to use Yahoo Mail? When I left in 2015, they had disabled POP for internal mail, so we were forced to use the actual Yahoo Mail website.
- deleted 9y ago
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- phamilton 9y ago
  > forced to use the actual Yahoo Mail website I left in 2016 and in practice we just didn't use email at all because it was so painful to use.
  - yeukhon 9y ago
    I heard from a friend internal YMail would have ads too because the YMail team needed to test the ad product of YMail... which is kind of ... eh.
  - mcculley 9y ago
    What kind of work did you do that didn’t require email?
    - phamilton 9y ago
      We mostly just used Slack/HipChat instead.
  - J5892 9y ago
    I had to communicate with sales constantly (worked on the front-page ads team), so email was essential, unfortunately.

Which of the below do you mean: a) Employees of yahoo using gmail for personal purposes? b) Yahoo, the company, uses gmail c) @yahoo.com will be powered by gmail in the future as a white labeled product? (Each of the above is alarming in it's own way)

jkoll 9y ago
It's clearly (b) from the context.
ams6110 9y ago
I don't know about Yahoo, but in other organizations I've seen employees using gmail, for work, because it's more convenient than the corporate/enterprise email platform.
- the_common_man 9y ago
  Sure but it's usually against corporate policy and reason to fire the person. This has happened in companies I have worked in the past. People take print outs and take them outside office. This is against company policy for confidential documents).
  - foo101 9y ago
    What kind of companies are these? I have worked in a dozen companies so far and in not one of them using GMail for personal use was against the corporate policy.
    - praneshp 9y ago
      GP clearly says "gmail, for work". I think a vast majority of companies would fire (at least, call it out as against policy) if you just went ahead and used gmail for work emails because the official one is crappy.
- empath75 9y ago
  Aol, at least, migrated their corporate email to gmail several years ago. Before that, it was exchange.

J5892 9y ago

When did they switch from forcing all employees to use Yahoo Mail? When I left in 2015, they had disabled POP for internal mail, so we were forced to use the actual Yahoo Mail website.

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phamilton 9y ago
> forced to use the actual Yahoo Mail website I left in 2016 and in practice we just didn't use email at all because it was so painful to use.
- yeukhon 9y ago
  I heard from a friend internal YMail would have ads too because the YMail team needed to test the ad product of YMail... which is kind of ... eh.
- mcculley 9y ago
  What kind of work did you do that didn’t require email?
  - phamilton 9y ago
    We mostly just used Slack/HipChat instead.
- J5892 9y ago
  I had to communicate with sales constantly (worked on the front-page ads team), so email was essential, unfortunately.