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"The changes we’re announcing today will put our customers first, allow us to move fast, and to get stuff done." I always find it amusing that, when big compan
by amcintyre 15y ago
"The changes we’re announcing today will put our customers first, allow us to move fast, and to get stuff done."
I always find it amusing that, when big companies keep adding people and byzantine processes to a project, it's so they can "get stuff done." Then, when they fire those people, it's for the same reason, even though most of the people in the trenches could have told them they'd have got more done if they'd avoided the extra overhead in the first place.
- fragsworth 15y agoIt's just PR. You should take it with a grain of salt. You do need more people to get more stuff done (i.e. taking additional risk to build new things). And you do need to lose people if you're short on money. There's really no way around it. You shouldn't fault companies for taking risks when they have the chance, our civilization would be pretty stagnant otherwise.
- Isofarro 15y agoPR for emails sent to employees? Oh yes, that's Yahoo. When I was there they actually had a PR department exclusively devoted to internal communications.
- andyakb 15y agois this really that strange for a company this size to consider PR aspects of official email from C-level execs when it will surely leak?
- Isofarro 15y agoNot strange, just depressing that employees are just fungible resources who don't really require a clear explanation for the current situation; and how this layoff is any different to the previous 5 rounds in the last 4 years. Surely the key thing about these types of emails is to rebuild trust/solidarity in retained employees or bolster confidence that this isn't just another numbers and spreadsheet game, and that this time they have a clear vision, a strategy and a viable tactical plan on how to deliver that.