Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce::Zoom on Thursday confirmed that it’s cutting about 2% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to announce layoffs.
Oh hey their return to office demand wasn’t about productivity it was a soft layoff like everyone said wow.
Sucks that there’s so many layoffs happening in tech right now that my first reaction was “that’s not that bad”.
Not just tech. I know GEICO (insurance company) has laid off a few thousand at least. They’re also union busting bitches.
capitalist/billionaire/asshole class: “fuck everyone but us…those cogs served their purpose…now we can run the machine without them. We’re the only REAL humans on this planet. No one else has feelings or anything. Clearly we need to do this to save us all. Sorry. Not sorry. I also deserve more money now & I can do this whenever I want because there’s no consequences from the money I am stealing every single day”
How the hell does Zoom have 7500 employees??
7400 are managers
I know some of them/some ex ones. When COVID hit they became a household name where everyone and their grandma knew about them and they thought they would become the next Google. Hired like crazy, employees with old stock grants were millionaires for a while (didn’t last) and then the hype died down and everyone realized they could do the same thing for free through one of the various other tech platforms.
So I hop around jobs and only my first job, during the Covid times, used Zoom. All three jobs since then has used Teams.
Alternative headline: Company in death throes tries anything to survive including cutting off own head
What do you expect? Didn’t their CEO say work from home is shit, people don’t get things done that way, and they all need to be in the office?
Does zoom do a ton more than the meeting app since they have 7500 employees?
Even with just video conference software you need a lot of employees for the quality zoom has. It handles audio and video very well even in unstable networks. Their backgrounds and blurring has also massively improved in the last couple years.
No not really, even with a couple of hundred employees it would be a lot for that.
150 job cut doesn’t really seem newsworthy. This kinda shit happens all the time
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