Wednesday December 10, 08:12 PM
Yahoo layoffs commence
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO - news) on Wednesday began dropping the axe on employees, following through on a promise to cut its workforce by at least 10 percent in an effort to right its financially listing ship.
Yahoo announced plans to dump some 1,400 employees after reporting in October that the weak economy had cut deeply into the California Internet pioneer's third-quarter profits.
Layoffs of most US Yahoo workers are happening Wednesday and were already underway in other parts of the world, Yahoo's beleaguered co-founder and outgoing chief executive Jerry Yang wrote in an email to employees.
"This is a tough time for all of us," Yang wrote. "The reductions we're making are very hard, but they are also very necessary as we focus on the long-term health of our business."
Yahoo has been losing ground on the Internet to companies such as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG - news) , MySpace and Facebook and the economic slowdown has hurt the firm particularly hard as advertisers cut back on spending.
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