Marissa Mayer started by making food free at Yahoo

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    How is the new CEO Marissa Mayer going to revive Yahoo ? Making the company more like Google , from which it just left, writes Mashable .

    According to Kara Swisher, Mayer has already introduced some changes at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Among them: holding weekly general meetings on Fridays, as well as free food in all indoor cafes.

    Of course, it’s easy to say that all of this is borrowed from Google , but free food has long become the standard in many Silicon Valley offices - that this was not so at Yahoo , most likely, was a sore point for some engineers.Facebook and Twitter , for example, make free snacks and cook meals daily for their employees.

    These, of course, are minor changes, but they are likely to enhance the morale of the company, whose image has worsened over the past seven years.

    In addition to new meetings and free food, Mayer also plans to significantly change the workspace in the office to make it more conducive to collaboration and generally more interesting. She is also set to work on improving Yahoo’s core products , including email, Flickr, and search.

    In addition, according to Swisher sources, in the coming days it may become known about a big deal that will mark a new direction for the company. As one of the sources put it,Yahoo will again become a technology company - a company of platforms and products.

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