from SLATE: Is Yahoo Really Just Laying People Off?
By Matthew Yglesias Posted Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at 10:18 AM I endorse everything my colleague Farhad Manjoo has to say about the stupidity of banning people from working from home, but in the spirit of generosity I wonder if that's even really what this is about. Say you're Marissa Mayer and your diagnosis is that Yahoo would benefit from some staff reductions. But you also feel that kicking off your tenure with a new round of layoffs would be bad for morale. You think you have some reason to believe that the full-time workers from home on the Yahoo staff are a disproportionately low-productivity cohort. Announcing this new policy becomes a way of reducing the size of the staff without throwing everyone into a panic about layoffs and cost-cutting and oh-my-god-should-I-be-looking-for-a-new-job-elsewhere. It's just the new boss putting her stamp on the company. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
