[q2]

It is known that yahoo has identity problems compared to Google/facebook ...etc. If you are a loyal employee, who believes in turnaround and stay till the end, this type of decisions can be painful. He/she may/may not get a chance to US and due to other family reasons may not be willing to relocate.

Loyalty, it seems, does not have any value in modern organizations. Traditionally, in India, job/career is viewed differently than in America. Job indicates some sort of stability to life and these sort of decisions, can crash those views. There are some who misused that stability and there are many who utilized that stability properly and create value to life,society.

I read in news the statements of visiting American CEO's that they understand India,localize their operations ...etc. My suggestion is, in addition to understanding "customer/consumer" aspect of Indians, please understand the other aspects such as society,priorities, values, relative importance ...etc too. If that is the case, organizations will be careful during hiring, making sustainable business models avoiding knee-jerk policies.

[themartorana]

All due respect, but if US companies look at US employees as expendable cost units and not as people, what makes you think they'd have any care for employees in a location they initially came to in order to reduce the cost of hiring US employees? The increase-profits-at-any-cost model hurts the US directly as well.

There isn't a huge cultural difference between India and the US here. Many, if not most people would love a long-term reliable career with a company they could care about and would care about them and their/their family's well being. The only reason we have a new culture of adversarial relationships between employers and employees in the US now is because of the loss of loyalty on the company side.

India is, maybe, just next up to feel the pain of what happens when money is placed above all else - including human suffering.

[marktangotango]

>>Traditionally, in India, job/career is viewed differently than in America. Job indicates some sort of stability to life and these sort of decisions, can crash those views. There are some who misused that stability and there are many who utilized that stability properly and create value to life,society.

This was traditionally the case in the U.S. as well, it is a lamentable situation.