Mayer's first Yahoo CEO initiative: offering free lunches

"Silicon Valley's first beauty" Marissa can reunite Yahoo's increasingly lax hearts?

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's new CEO, is now Marissa Yahoo: offering free lunches to employees to create a comfortable working environment. She hopes to boost Yahoo's morale by doing so, branding the company.

Ms. Mayer announced in her second week of office that the meeting was held every Friday afternoon, and Yahoo held it at its headquarters last week. In addition, she announced that the company will provide staff with free lunches (but currently limited to Silicon Valley), although the decision to many Yahoo executives worried about the increase in operating costs, but the engineers are very excited.

Ms. Mayer is also preparing to make major adjustments to the layout of the office environment in order to strengthen the collaboration between employees, according to several people familiar with the matter. Industry insiders point out that for Ms. Mayer, who has never had a CEO experience before, this move to strengthen the corporate culture is really interesting, because creating a comfortable office atmosphere is an important reason for Google's success.

In the past few years, Yahoo employees have generally been demoralized by layoffs, frequent management shifts and bleak corporate prospects. Yahoo employees reacted positively to Ms. Mayer's latest move. One employee said: "Although this may be a trivial matter, it still makes us very excited." Another employee quipped, "There is no free lunch." ”

In addition, people familiar with the situation said Ms. Mayer is trying to strengthen Yahoo's business, especially the product innovation as Yahoo out of the current dilemma "magic weapon." In other words, Mayer wants to make Yahoo products such as email, Flickr, search and advertising services more effective.

This is a daunting task, but it is not surprising that Ms. Mayer was responsible for such important business as Google search. Mayer understands the importance of products to an enterprise. "Yahoo will be a technology-driven company and everything will start around platforms and products," said one person familiar with the matter. ”

This could mean that Yahoo will seek to reach a blockbuster technology or product deal in the near future – perhaps through acquisitions, to show the outside world a new direction for Yahoo, many people familiar with the matter said. Promising products such as pubmatic and Flipboard could be Yahoo's takeover targets.

The fate of Yahoo's existing team also attracts attention. Ms. Mayer has been poring over the corporate structure for the past week, and has sought the advice of relevant people to prepare for the announcement of Yahoo's new strategic plan in the near future, according to people familiar with the matter. Previously, Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinson Ross Levinsohn, who had lost his job in the CEO battle, may soon leave.

Whether Mr Michael Barrett's assistant, Michael Barrett, the sales director, will remain in office will depend largely on how good Ms. Mayer is. However, many Yahoo employees are welcome to join a former Google employee or current employee – Mayer has a large number of loyal employees at Google, such as Ben Ling, an online business executive. Industry insiders pointed out that, according to Mayer's current Yahoo in a series of Google-style changes, they will certainly find a home in Yahoo feel.