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Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Re: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Post by htag »

survirtual wrote: post #412
htag wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is this guild license, and how does it differ from the current system of having private companies own software licenses, tech patents, and trade secrets? It sounds to me like you're just describing a tech company.

It is a tech company but it is owned by specialized, skilled workers. It is a guild because tech workers are professional artisans. Guilds are an organization of skilled professionals which have quality certification for work, often times integrated with legal frameworks in a government. Software needs to be elevated, credentialed, regulated, and more respected. This is what a guild would enable. But I think merging…

I'll agree with you that I like the GPL License (I think you meant that, when you mentioned GNU) more than the MIT. I think we, at least broadly, agree on the definitions of Guild, Union, and Company.

You haven't convinced me that this is a thing desirable or plausible. You keep mentioning benefits that I feel I already have. You haven't convinced me that the technical output would be better than the current system. You haven't convinced me that there is a place for this in our current world, or that their is a reasonable growth path for the idea. In fact, the discussion is largely abstract. I wish you all the best with your idea, maybe there is something here than just isn't getting through to me right now.

Re: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Post by kderbyma »

I canceled recently. they suck. they keep making the platform worse and worse and it's following the trend of every single paltform

was good...got shitty....I unsubscribe...my life improves...I find alternatives and rediscover the way things were before streaming ruined it....forget about the stream until a new article mentions they are laying off staff... remember I was using them until recently....stop thinking and move on..put on an album and relax.

Re: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Post by srcreigh »

phamilton4 wrote: post #127

I get needing to keep a company lean and that businesses operate to make money... But most of these recent layoffs really make me feel uneasy. Spotify is a little different because AFAIK they are still operating at a negative net income, but still let's take a look at this. They're going to let go 600 people.. that's maybe an annual 90 million in savings (150k salary). The company's revenue is about 9 billion with -3…

The savings are 1%, not 0.1%.

Re: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Post by joshl32532 »

silveroriole wrote: post #53
dataengineer56 wrote: post #15

The Spotify app constantly frustrates me and I miss the old Google Play Music app. - I listened to 5 minutes of one episode of a podcast once, decided it wasn't for me and stopped, but ever since then I have an entire pane on my homepage dedicated to my apparent love for that podcast. - The first 4 sections of the homepage recommend me exactly the same things - I have the last 6 albums I listened to at the top, then…

I think the most amazing mistake Spotify made was that recently all private playlists suddenly became public, because they changed the meaning of private and public to introduce some weird third level of privacy. I now have no idea what the privacy settings do. Second most amazing was when they made the scrollbar literally two pixels wide and therefore unusable. It’s not even that these are huge errors but it just ma…

Damn, I just noticed all my playlists are public too.

Thanks for the heads up. And screw Spotify!

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Post by bogomipz »

eigen-vector wrote: post #32

This is probably the least tactical message amongst all the companies that have laid off people. Ek's spent most of the time rambling about efficiency and organizational changes to leadership positions who'll be least affected by the layoffs. Then comes the layoff news. It's almost as if he's rectifying someone else's mistake and everyone getting laid off should be thankful about it. I wish CEOs read some of the emai…

Not only does he bury the ledge in his self-referential philosophical drivel but he closes the layoff announcement with:

>"Finally, I hope you will join me tomorrow for Unplugged."

He seems like a caricature. Tone-deaf seems to be his default. As a reminder:

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/spotify-boss-blames-mus...

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Post by confidantlake »

The thing that annoys me about spotify is the order does not seem to work. I was listening to some beach boys songs, then went to play an album by marvin gaye. It played the first song in the album, then went and started playing beach boys songs again. This just started happening this week, never had the problem before. Another problem was podcasts were either missing episodes or playing out of order.

Re: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Post by brown9-2 »

dataengineer56 wrote: post #15

The Spotify app constantly frustrates me and I miss the old Google Play Music app. - I listened to 5 minutes of one episode of a podcast once, decided it wasn't for me and stopped, but ever since then I have an entire pane on my homepage dedicated to my apparent love for that podcast. - The first 4 sections of the homepage recommend me exactly the same things - I have the last 6 albums I listened to at the top, then…

Why does every thread about a consumer app company like this turn into off-topic feedback about the product?

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Post by oxfordmale »

thehappypm wrote: post #429
bastardoperator wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You arrived at this conclusion anecdotally. You can't do your best work with a constant cloud hanging over you, doesn't matter who you are.

Morale hits are real, but tend to fade if people feel confident that they’ve survived another day.

Layoffs result in a 30% increase in staff turnover. As markets tend to be more challenging, it can take some months before people actually leave. This can have a knock on effect, especially if senior and respected staff leave.

Re: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Post by oxfordmale »

austinpena wrote: post #443
oxfordmale wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cost picture is as follows: money saved on staff reduction - money spent on layoff packages - (temporary reduction in productivity, because of lower staff morale) Research shows there is no long-term benefit of layoffs other than the short-term gain in cash flow. Layoffs are only beneficial if they are needed for survival of the company

Can you link that research?

It is in the thread below.

Re: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

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Post by deelowe »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #302
bananapub wrote: post #251

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>It's very naive to think these huge orgs don't have dead weight which is much bigger than 6%. If you start figuring some of your moonshot ideas aren't hitting their OKR's, you have a few options: there's been so many versions of this low quality comment on every tech-company-mass-firing article. why is so little thought put into it? if the company feels it can save on salaries then: 1. close down projects that aren'…

Why do you think that mass broad spectrum layoffs are random holes? From what I've seen they follow exactly the structure you're describing - there's a company-wide search for projects that aren't pulling their weight, those projects are shut down, and the employees whose roles no longer make sense without the projects that will be shut down get laid off. > would you suggest saving data storage costs by deleting 6% o…

I know quite a few people who were laid off at this point. I'm not seeing what you are. It's quite random.
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