I don't know anything about the situation at Yahoo, but in any company of 14,000 people, I find it hard to believe inter-team/department tension is based on obj

I don't know anything about the situation at Yahoo, but in any company of 14,000 people, I find it hard to believe inter-team/department tension is based on objective reality. e.g. If sales and engineering don't get along, engineering will tend to believe sales is always taking advantage of sleazy junkets and sales will tend to believe engineering is playing games all day, regardless of the reality. [1] So removing perks from one or both feuding groups can hardly be expected to address any underlying problems, real or imagined. [1] Those situations are basically the adult version of the infamous Robber's Cave Study. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber%27s_Cave_study#Robbers_cave_study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber%27s_Cave_study#Robbers_c...