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It's just for dying companies. Yahoo and Best Buy are facing life and death changes. It makes sense to go into full panic mode. Maybe they'll come back, if they
by jfoutz 14y ago
It's just for dying companies. Yahoo and Best Buy are facing life and death changes. It makes sense to go into full panic mode. Maybe they'll come back, if they get small enough, maybe they'll be nimble enough to make some cash. Finding the really loyal employees is probably a good move. Scaling back benefits is a good way to do that.
- mindcrime 14y agoIt's just for dying companies. Let us hope so. Finding the really loyal employees is probably a good move. Scaling back benefits is a good way to do that. But is that really the way it works? Somebody on another thread pointed out that this sort of thing probably actually costs you your best people, since the ones who leave first are the ones with plenty of options. The ones who hang around as long as possible aren't necessarily loyal they may just not think they can find another job, or they're "retired on the job" and hoping to milk it as long as they can until they get canned.
- slantyyz 14y ago>> Let us hope so. I'm not sure that it's really a big deal. For every company that ends telecommuting, another one will come around offering telecommuting as a strategy to acquire talent.
- ryguytilidie 14y agoThe best part is how you keep seeing the "Marissa Mayer is a genius because the remote workers who aren't performing will quit". No, the best ones will quit. The ones who can't get jobs elsewhere immediately will be the ones most likely to stay.
- netcan 14y agoAny painful, unpopular decision is mostly for dying companies. That doesn't necessarily mean its a bad one.