[simmons]

I'm all about merit/talent-based hiring and working from home, but it's hard for me to be too judgmental of extreme measures taken in an effort to resurrect a declining company. Yahoo is the patient on the operating room table being defibrillated with 1000 volts -- a desperate act that would be absolutely crazy to perform on a healthy person just for good measure. As others have suggested, maybe Yahoo has some deeply embedded cultural faults that can only be worked around with these measures.

Whether it will work or not, I couldn't say. I find it a little sad to see companies wait until they're past the point of no return before looking for a savior. (See: Palm and Jon Rubinstein).