valleywag.com - 12/12/2008
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Yahoo has a strict set of rules to follow in layoffs: No small talk. Get to the point. Don't own the employee's feelings. Did Jerry Yang, the stumbling Internet company's cloddish founder-CEO, follow them in his latest all-hands memo? Of course not! Check out the unnecessary verbiage — ...
ycorpblog.com - 12/10/2008
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ycorpblog.com —
As we announced in October, we’ve been aggressively
managing our costs to bring them in line with...
the challenging economic conditions. Unfortunately, that means laying off employees –- by far the toughest part of being a manager. Here’s the email I ...
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Tough times
developer.yahoo.net - 12/15/2008
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developer.yahoo.net —
You may have seen today’s news announcing the
next generation of Yahoo! Mail — rolling out a...
“smarter inbox” experience to users. One way to make an inbox smarter: make applications that can work within it, opening up Yahoo! Mail to content and ...
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Yahoo! Mail rolls out a smarter inbox
kara.allthingsd.com - 12/10/2008
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kara.allthingsd.com —
While layoffs have become all too common across
tech and this country, today’s at Yahoo feel a...
little worse, coming after 18 unceasing months of painful changes and stumbles at the troubled Internet icon. As previously reported by ...
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Another Sad Day For Yahoo: Layoffs Begin, While ...
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Yahoo layoffs: Not death, but sacking by PowerPoint
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Yahoo is "getting fit", which must be the 21st century incarnation of the 1980s euphemism of 'right-sizing', thought up by the late 20th century masters of managerial spin to replace the senselessly negative term downsizing. In a somewhat unsuccessful marriage of e.e. cummings and Frederick Winslow Taylor, outgoing Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang broke the bad news to employees: but as you all know, we must take actions to better perform in today's turbulent global economy. while we've found efficiencies in many parts of our business, laying off employees ...
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