Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gives employees to top Smartphones for work

Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of its full time and part time employees in the US, promising them a Apple iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE or the Nokia Lumia 920 smartphones. And not only is Yahoo paying for the handset, they will also take care of employee's monthly data and phone bills.

she wanted them to get rid of the BlackBerry handsets they were using for work and switch to the Apple iPhone. The goal was to get everyone working for the company using the same platform at work.

Recently, Business Insider  found a note from Mayer to the staff which announced a new program called "Yahoo! Smartphones, Smart Fun!", Under the terms of the program, BlackBerry handsets are forbidden at work. 

Here's a memo that just went out-

We have a very exciting update to share with you today - we are announcing Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun! As of today, Yahoo is moving off of blackberries as our corporate phones and on to smartphones in 22 countries. A few weeks ago, we said that we would look into smartphone penetration rates globally and take those rates into account when deciding on corporate phones. Ideally, we'd like our employees to have devices similar to our users, so we can think and work as the majority of our users do.

Moving forward, we'll offer you a choice of devices as well as provide monthly plans for the data and phone.

The smartphone choices that we are including in the program are:

Apple iPhone 5

Samsung Galaxy S3

HTC One X

HTC EVO 4G LTE

Nokia Lumia 920

We're getting started right away and taking orders starting now.

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