Exclusive: Yahoo India Is Laying Off Everybody in India. Everybody

Wasn't yahoo eliminating remote/work from home options for its US based employees? So they realized they want to bring all the workforce to one place, and aren't getting the cost advantages of previously much lower wages afford?

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Post by Shivetya » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 1:37 PM UTC

kkanojia wrote: post #2

How credible is the source? I Dont see this news anywhere else.

http://www.medianama.com/2014/10/223-layoffs-yahoo-india/

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Post by eloisant » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 1:40 PM UTC

yarper wrote: post #5

If this isn't related to cost, what is it related to? Quality? "Consolidation" is a bit misleading if so. Seconded on more sources needed.

Cutting employees in India instead of US or Europe is clearly not a way to reduce cost.

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Post by _mulder_ » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 1:43 PM UTC

Misleading headline... Why emphasise 'Everybody' in the headline when this is not the case?!

From the article: "out of 2250+ people in Yahoo SDC Bangalore, only 250 remain".

Well, if 250 people will remain (plus the "Yahoo India teams, which looks at Yahoo.in web properties [which] are untouched") then quite simply, this is not 'everybody'.

"Yahoo India is Laying Of 89% of it's workforce in India" is just as click-baity, but 100% more honest.

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Post by chris_wot » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 1:45 PM UTC

This seems to be unconfirmed rumour.