Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!
Inc.(NASDAQ:YHOO)’s Chief Executive, who was out since past 3 months into a budding
effort to revamp the struggling web firm, is slated to be back to her office in
a week’s time, after the birth of her first child.
The 37 year old Mayer
will be working from home. She continues to lead the firm and is responsible
for all critical decisions that are taken, as per details provided by a Yahoo
spokeswoman.
Yahoo told Reuters in
an emailed comment that Mayer will be working remotely and is planning to
return to office the soonest possible.
Mayer used to be an
executive at Google before taking over at Yahoo. She is the third permanent CEO
of the company in a matter of a year. She is leading an effort to revamp the
flagging revenue growth of the company amid rivalry from Facebook, Google and
other new-gen Web start-ups.
Mayer has not yet
briefed investors on her plans for Yahoo. However, she has provided some
general details to the company’s staff in meetings with employees the previous
week.
Women are considerably
underrepresented when it comes to ranks of corporate CEOs. Mayer’s announcement
on her pregnancy happened on the same day she was declared the CEO of Yahoo. Her
comments in Fortune magazine that she was not keen on taking extended maternity
had triggered debate about whether such an example would help her or hurt the
cause of other women in the workplace.
News of Mayer’s first
childbirth was made public on Twitter by her husband, Zachary Bogue.
A partner with
Witt/Kieffer, Kim Smith had predicted that no matter how much Mayer may have
made preparations for arrival of her baby, she will be surprised by some of the
hindrances that torment working moms. She said that there can be no charting
out what it is like to be a mom.
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