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So the message is now clear- ending telecommuting is something failing companies do.

Is Yahoo still actively "failing," or is it starting from a point of failure? If a few years from now Yahoo is successful and the move paid off, we will just as easily be able to say: "The message is now clear - ending telecommuting is a great way to help turn around your company." Time will tell. If this is just meant as a knock against yahoo/best buy, if they turn around it could make you eat your words.

To me its more clear that these companies have pretty clueless managers that have no idea if their people are working or not.

Failing companies usually have managers who can't tell if their workers are being productive or not?

They must not have shown up in Yahoo!'s VPN logs either. ;)

Yahoo stock is up from $15 under Scott Thompson to almost $23 with Mayer, so not sure what point you're trying to make.

Please, since you are so familiar with the ins and outs of Yahoo, what would you have done differently?

I'm sorry, but are you implying that stock price has anything to do with how well the company is doing? Because it doesn't.

One place I worked at had a stock price that fluctuated. Some times it was 8c, other times it was 16c - we could actually double our stock price and still have to lay people off...

I'd be surprised if it were otherwise. The company only makes its money from selling "new" stock. The 8 and 16 cent prices are what people are paying each other for "used" stock, and the company doesn't see a penny from those "used" stock trades.

Er, surely the stock price has something to do with how well the company are doing!

It's more a measure of the traders' perception of how the company is going to do in the (not so distant) future.

Sometimes perception becomes reality. Sometimes traders have no idea what they are doing.

not that.

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