Work from home

Understanding Work from home ,through yahoo!

Brief history

• Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo.

• Yahoo provides internet services around the world, including search engine, web portal, Yahoo mail, directory services and more.

• Yahoo is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA• Yahoo began as a project created by two

individuals and has grown to employ estimated 13,000 full time individuals.

Yahoo the complex internet organism has complicated name. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

Yahoo! Company culture• Yahoo employees are expected to work long hours• in return, the company offers a lot of on site perks• There is a work hard, play hard mentality• The company fosters an environment of teamwork• offering video games and Foosball, and celebrating

achievements and milestones with company parties.• Company events are very popular at Yahoo, and

include visits from influential speakers, quarterly company meetings, summer picnics, end of the year parties, even a Yahoo Halloween party (Oktoberfest).

Jobs at Yahoo!

• Software Engineer• Web Developers• Technical Project/Program Managers• QA Engineer• Network Engineer• System Administrators• Database Administrators• Etc

Yahoo! Benefits in its style

• Stock Options/Employee Stock Purchase Plan –Through our ESPP plan, employees may invest in Yahoo! Inc. stock through payroll deductions. Employees pay only 85% of market value for the stock.

• Vacation –Yahoos accrue two weeks in year one, three weeks in year two, and an additional day for each year worked thereafter. In addition, there are 12 paid holidays a year.

• Health Care – Yahoo! offers health care coverage for employees and their eligible dependents. Domestic partner coverage is also available as a taxable benefit.

Present…

• Things have not been sweet for them were they lost there position to google and bing

• Marissa mayer present CEO to revive the condition is acting upon the changes in organization and trying best to retain talent and provide better work-life balance.

• Drastic move by the new CEO, introduced a ban on working from home which has drawn both flak and applause.

Should more of us be doing our jobs in our pajamas?

• Lower attrition rates make sense — working from home gives you more flexibility if you have kids and so forth — but how do you explain the productivity increases? Why would people get more done out of the office?

• remote workers tend to be slacking because of low morale.

• Will knowledge and creative workers also be more productive at home?

• Thank you for your time