Lucky Yahoo employees to get a free iPhone 5 each

Yahoo Inc.’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer, has offered to dole out free smartphones to all staff members – and not just any smartphone.

According to Business Insider, Mayer has just sent an email to all of Yahoo’s full time and part time employees in the US, offering them a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone.

What, no BlackBerry?

According to the memo, Yahoo employees will have a choice of phones:

iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920. And it doesn’t just stop there. Apart from the device, Yahoo will also foot the bill for its employees’ data and phone charges – now that’s uber cool.

The memo reads:

“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

* Android:

- Samsung Galaxy S3

- HTC One X

- HTC EVO 4G LTE

* Windows Phone 8:

- Nokia Lumia 920

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

Now that’s one smart move by Yahoo. The company already gives its full-time staffers free food at its cafeterias, by the way – just rubbing it in.

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