[HN Gopher] CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team
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       CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team
        
       Author : joshmanders
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-07-13 18:41 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.netlify.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.netlify.com)
        
       | nickstinemates wrote:
       | From the title it sounded like Netlify had a new CEO.
        
       | habisbiskok wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
       | dcchambers wrote:
       | Anyone have an idea of what percentage of the workforce affected?
       | They already laid off 16% back in December. Since it's not
       | mentioned in the blog post I fear it may be quite high.
        
         | melaniecrissey wrote:
         | 46 people were affected.
        
       | andrewstuart wrote:
       | Wow this seems really poorly worded.
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       | On one hand, the CEO is upbeat about the future and yaks on about
       | strategy and in the same breath says "you're fired".
       | 
       | Seems very insensitive.
       | 
       | Laying people off isn't the time for a pep talk and ra ra rally
       | on the strategy.
       | 
       | IMO if you have to lay people off then the focus should be the
       | people being laid off, nothing else.
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       | "Deeply sorry, we did our best to avoid this and we don't see any
       | choice at this stage. All benefits have been paid immediately
       | plus a severance package in line with statutory requirements. We
       | have engaged a search firm to assist the people impacted with
       | their job search.
       | 
       | We believe this is the right move to ensure stability in the
       | current challenging economic conditions and I do not anticipate
       | further layoffs.
       | 
       | I want to thank the impacted people for their service in building
       | the company to this point."
       | 
       | Something like that anyway.
        
         | solardev wrote:
         | The wording is to reassure investors. They don't care about the
         | employees.
        
           | 111111IIIIIII wrote:
           | Most people on this site are American, which means they
           | generally don't know what capitalism is or how it actually
           | works. They truly believe everything comes down individuals
           | making "good" decisions or "bad" decisions.
        
       | CSMastermind wrote:
       | It's interesting to see the continued waves of layoffs. I'm
       | starting to hear from friends at startups that their companies
       | are going through pretty significant layoffs. Makes sense since
       | we're basically at the 1 year mark from when the VC money dried
       | up.
       | 
       | I wonder how many companies had 12 to 18 months of runway left
       | and we're about to see them slowly turn off the lights.
        
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