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My guess....Yahoo needs to fire lotsa people (they have 18,000 employees), so probably they are starting: "Oh, you can't move your family from Small Town, Ohio
by OGinparadise 14y ago
My guess....Yahoo needs to fire lotsa people (they have 18,000 employees), so probably they are starting: "Oh, you can't move your family from Small Town, Ohio to Big City in 7 days? Unfortunately we have to let you go."
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoCan such a company afford to fire essentially randomly? Remote workers may be some of the best producers. Generally a reduction-in-force is done more selectively.
- hga 14y agoI was working at Lucent when they crashed from 106,000 employees to a targeted 37-35,000. Managers boasted about laying off some of the best producers; I think the subtext was "If they're not safe, no one is". Granted, this did kill the company (they got bought by Alcatel), and I know it killed the project I was working on when I left/was pushed out, something that was necessary for Lucent's survival (1/2 of the modern style telephone switch, what follows the 5ESS in their case).
- OGinparadise 14y agoThey can always sweeten the pot for the best ones. Some have said that Yahoo needs to fire as many as 10,000 people http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-yahoo-marissa-mayer-needs-to-fire-10000-people-and-get-rid-of-all-the-blackberrys-2012-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-yahoo-marissa-mayer-needs-...