In October 2014, US based technology company Yahoo! Inc.

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• Human Resource Management
• CASE STUDY (20 Marks)
• In October 2014, US based technology
  company Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo) announced that it
  planned to layoff around 400 engineers from its
  India office. These engineers were part of its
  Software Development Center (SDC) at Bangalore in
  south India, the second largest engineering
  development center of Yahoo. US based Yahoo Inc.
  (Yahoo) used layoff and downsizing as a
  restructuring strategy to control its bloated
  cost structure and trim its workforce.

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• In one such restructuring effort in October
  2014 when Yahoo laid off around 400 software
  engineers from its RD office in Bangalore,
  India. There were various speculations on the
  number of employees laid off and the rationale
  behind this decision. Along with this, it also
  highlights the influence of investors on the
  human resource planning (HRP) of the company. The
  strategic move of its competitors to exploit such
  massive layoff is also to be taken into
  consideration.

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• Answer the following question.
• Q1. Explain the reasons for downsizing and layoff
  as a restructuring tool of human resource
  planning.
• Q2. Discuss how downsizing is used by the
  companies to reign in expenses.
• Q3. Analyze the influence of investors on the
  strategic decisions of the company.
• Q4. Give an overview of the case.

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