[gcb0]

you can say that about any company. any office. google headquarter is full of layers of management with little to do. etc.

the problem with this news is that yahoo, instead of evaluating those layers and managers, took the lazy aproach. then being close to revenue deadlines, made it look twice as lazy.

firing useless layers of management is good. laying off with BS excuses is not.

for example, they laid off people not working well on their instant messager in carsbard, as the article states. but instead of saying so, they called it office cuts, and made life hell for the few folks there working very well from there but not in the lazy team.

and the more random layoffs (as opposed to honest message that some team didnt work out) the good guys get scared and leave, causing more bad guy to be "laid off" in a vicious cycle

[seanflyon]

> you can say that about any company

Different companies have dramatically different amounts of management.

[gcb0]

after they are over some 20k non-manual labor employees, its all in the median for my comment to apply

[seanflyon]

> its all in the median for my comment to apply

I don't know what this means.