Comments on: Yahoo looks at cutting hundreds of jobs http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-looks-at-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-2/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:59:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: yahooemailguy http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-looks-at-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-2/#comment-706851 yahooemailguy Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:03:50 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-looks-at-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-2/#comment-706851 as long as i still get my free, ad supported email, which has been useful for years now. as long as i still get my free, ad supported email, which has been useful for years now.

]]> By: Jay Small http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-looks-at-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-2/#comment-706180 Jay Small Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:46:05 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-looks-at-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-2/#comment-706180 Yeah, ironic, if it comes down that way. There's also a lot of blog buzz about most of the cuts, if any, happening in divisions outside the U.S. -- where the newspaper consortium deal lives. All guesswork until it happens, I suppose. Yeah, ironic, if it comes down that way. There’s also a lot of blog buzz about most of the cuts, if any, happening in divisions outside the U.S. — where the newspaper consortium deal lives. All guesswork until it happens, I suppose.

]]> By: Tim http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-looks-at-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-2/#comment-706165 Tim Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:29:59 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-looks-at-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-2/#comment-706165 "to get the stock moving again" is a very telling phrase. When a company is more concerned about its stock price and pleasing investors than it is about pleasing customers, that's when it starts a downhill slide. Advertising-funded companies like Yahoo need to please customers to increase or at least maintain the number of eyeballs viewing those ads. Reducing employee count is only going to make content and service less pleasing, driving customers away and therefore beginning the downward spiral. “to get the stock moving again” is a very telling phrase.

When a company is more concerned about its stock price and pleasing investors than it is about pleasing customers, that’s when it starts a downhill slide. Advertising-funded companies like Yahoo need to please customers to increase or at least maintain the number of eyeballs viewing those ads. Reducing employee count is only going to make content and service less pleasing, driving customers away and therefore beginning the downward spiral.

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