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

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

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Post by plinkplonk »

_mulder_ wrote: post #9

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-ba…

I think the 250 are those who manage the Yahoo.in teams. It seems pretty legit (fwiw, I don't have any 'secret' information, but the rumour all over town - I live in Bangalore fwiw )

). And yes the headline is exaggerated a bit. Hey more clicks.

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

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Post by ewzimm »

_mulder_ wrote: post #9

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-ba…

That's not even correct. Yahoo Software Development Center is either laying off or transferring 89% of its workforce to consolidate its engineering. There are other Yahoo operations intact, and Yahoo is still in the process of investing in Indian startups; at least they recently acquired Bookpad. The "everybody" part is just hyperbole.

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Post by mechazawa »

eloisant wrote: post #8
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.

So it's quallity?

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Post by san86 »

loneranger_11x wrote: post #4
loneranger_11x wrote: post #3

Is this legit? None of the larger media outlets are not reporting this yet.

typo *None of the larger media outlets are reporting this yet.

NDTV did. Not too much details though..

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/yahoo-confirms-bangalo...

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

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Post by TheHypnotist »

eloisant wrote: post #8
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.

I don't know the salaries of Yahoo US vs Yahoo India, but please explain how cutting employees in any country isn't a way of reducing costs.

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Post by crpatino »

TheHypnotist wrote: post #15
eloisant wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I don't know the salaries of Yahoo US vs Yahoo India, but please explain how cutting employees in any country isn't a way of reducing costs.

Presumably cutting down 2000 jobs in India would achieve the same cost saving as cuting ~500 jobs in US/EU.
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