{"id":2218,"date":"2008-02-13T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/13\/yahoo-staffers-clogging-the-exits\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T14:55:58","slug":"yahoo-staffers-clogging-the-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/13\/yahoo-staffers-clogging-the-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo staffers clogging the exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people seem surprised that Yahoo would go ahead with layoffs despite its ongoing takeover battle with Microbeast, but the fact is that everything doesn&#8217;t grind to a halt when a takeover offer shows up. Yahoo has to proceed as though the deal may not go through, regardless of whether the odds are overwhelmingly stacked in favour of a Micro-hoo merger succeeding (which in my opinion they are). But one thing that is likely to change is the number of people looking for an exit.<\/p>\n<p>Some people &#8212; such as Susan Mernit and Ryan Kuder, who have <a href=\"http:\/\/susanmernit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/just-got-laid-off-at-yahoo.html\">blogged<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/2\/getting_fired_at_yahoo__a_twitter_log\">Twittered<\/a> their departures &#8212; are part of the layoff-induced exodus. Others seem to be leaving of their own accord, however, including (according to <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/02\/12\/yahoo-exec-bails-bradley-horowitz-leaves-for-google\/\">a report at TechCrunch<\/a>) Brad Horowitz, the head of Yahoo&#8217;s technology arm, who is reportedly going to the Great Google. Valleywag says <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/355750\/bradley-horowitz-from-yahoo-to-google\">he&#8217;ll be working on<\/a> the OpenSocial project.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a betting man, I would expect the number of smart Yahoo employees making that leap to increase exponentially over the next few weeks and months. Just think about it: would you want to not only be acquired by Microsoft &#8212; the king of .Net and shrink-wrapped software &#8212; but submerged in a sea of merger-related bureaucracy and time-sucking process for the next year or two? I wouldn&#8217;t. I hope Google has brought in extra staff to handle all the calls.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people seem surprised that Yahoo would go ahead with layoffs despite its ongoing takeover battle with Microbeast, but the fact is that everything doesn&#8217;t grind to a halt when a takeover offer shows up. Yahoo has to proceed as though the deal may not go through, regardless of whether the odds are overwhelmingly stacked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/13\/yahoo-staffers-clogging-the-exits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yahoo staffers clogging the exits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}