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.
Sucks that there’s so many layoffs happening in tech right now that my first reaction was “that’s not that bad”.
Oh hey their return to office demand wasn’t about productivity it was a soft layoff like everyone said wow.
Does zoom do a ton more than the meeting app since they have 7500 employees?
VOIP and call center call management systems.
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
Own it’s own maybe not, however in the current tech economy it’s another one to add to the list
I mean baseline layoffs and restructurings don’t add to or subtract from what makes the tech trend exceptional.
What makes it exceptional is its delta from the baseline.
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?
In other news the CEO of Philip Morris says, “cigarettes are not cool and kill people.”
Even if there was any truth to the benefit of a shared workspace, why would this moron advocate for it? I swear CEOs are acting like the Producers more and more every day.
Funny for a company that relies on it’s customers working from home.
This is exactly what I expected. Lay offs and return to work policies are smoke and mirrors for managers trying to steady a sinking ship.
So the company whose product helped facilitate remote work stock has returned to its pre-pandemic price? Not that surprising. Hardly on its last legs.
Yes the markets love stagnation. I bet the investors who bought during the pandemic are thrilled!
Lay offs must be the start of the journey, right?
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??
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.
7400 are managers