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It strikes me as a way to reduce headcount without announcing layoffs.

It's shitty if you were one of the telecommuters; and while I am loathe to side with a crappy doublespeak management move… Yahoo! does need a shake up. That's Mayer's whole deal, right?

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Yahoo is no stranger to layoffs, why go about it in such an obtuse way? Maybe the simplest answer is the most likely one - they want more control over their employees.

Exactly. The people who only work from home is in the low hundreds ~200 is what's being bandied about. That would have near zero impact on headcount. Other issues are at play.

On one hand, this strikes me as an example of, "Something must be done, this is Something, therefore this must be done."

On the other hand, if you assume that Yahoo was doomed, then everybody was going to get screwed. If Meyer can save the company while only screwing e.g. half the workforce, that's a substantial improvement, even if not all of the changes necessarily help.

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