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Re:Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units by anotherhacker on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:36AM (#11020463)
Do you have a reference to that? I can't find any evidence that Carlo Bartz engaged in any retraining of employees.

Again, I'm not suggesting cost cutting. I'm suggesting a move from frivolous expenses, to those which help make the employees more successful.

As I commented before, Deming was all about training employees over firing them.

https://www.deming.org/theman/theories/fourteenpoints

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Re:Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units by henrikschroder on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:21PM (#11021751)
Perks in SV companies are absolutely not frivolous expenses! They are a necessary expense to attract and keep the right talent, in competition with other SV companies that also offer generous perks. If you cut it, morale plummets and you will lose a lot of good employees.

The link you posted contains great tips for assembly-line factories filled with replaceable hourly workers. SV is.. not that.

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Re:Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units by discardorama on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:06PM (#11024676)
I was there when she cancelled the year-end party.
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