Yahoo to Let 140 Employees Go
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Yahoo to Let 140 Employees Go
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Re: Yahoo to Let 140 Employees Go
#2When asked for comment, the HR department said they'd initially planned to make deeper cuts, but they were limited to 140 characters.
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#3Considering the cuts are coming from the Marketing team (at least according to the article) I can't feel any sort of sympathy.
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#4Considering the cuts are coming from the Marketing team (at least according to the article) I can't feel any sort of sympathy.
Right, because people from Marketing don't add any value to a company.
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#5I was surprised they had 140 left.
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#6When asked for comment, the HR department said they'd initially planned to make deeper cuts, but they were limited to 140 characters.
Damn, I came here to make the same joke.
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#7> The reduction comes a month after the Web portal let around 600 workers go as part of a strategy by Carol A. Bartz, the chief executive, to pare costs and reinvigorate a stagnant business. Previous rounds of layoffs took place in 2009 and 2008.
Huge mistake - pretty much all the literature on the topic agrees that slow trickles of layoffs are disastrously bad for morale.
If you have to make cuts, you really want do it once, all at the same time, and then put it behind you.
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#8Her strategy is to focus on Yahoo’s strengths like display advertising and editorial content
So... old media?
Feel sorry for yahoo, this is what happens when you have incorrect leadership.
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#9Yahoo is pretty much done (from an ex-Yahoo)
Re: Yahoo to Let 140 Employees Go
#10Considering the cuts are coming from the Marketing team (at least according to the article) I can't feel any sort of sympathy.
You might argue that Yahoo's marketing department has the hardest job in the company.