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Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by aaomidi »

wojcikstefan wrote: post #22

My heart goes out to the laid off employees, though I think they'll be able to find solid jobs (or start their own companies) when they're ready. What I'm more surprised by is: 1. GitHub operating so independently from Microsoft at large that they have their own layoffs (not included in the 10k people that Microsoft announced they'll be parting ways with). 2. GitHub operating SO INDEPENDENTLY that they can decide to…

GitHub has been remote first forever tho. Microsoft buying them can’t change that without fundamentally breaking the teams.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by throwaway290 »

jobs_throwaway wrote: post #11

wild how so many companies are laying off 7-15% of their workforce in such quick succession

Anyone made redundant by LLM who is not in a protected class will be fired, otherwise top management violates legal duty to maximize shareholder value.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by patrakov »

mardifoufs wrote: post #25
jiocrag wrote: post #7

Fortune now confirming: https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-st...

>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

But what's wrong with Teams? It works well enough for me in Firefox on Linux. But OK, I only joined customer-initiated meetings, and was never presenting, only watching and talking, so maybe never used some important but non-working feature.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by Eji1700 »

patrakov wrote: post #35
mardifoufs wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

But what's wrong with Teams? It works well enough for me in Firefox on Linux. But OK, I only joined customer-initiated meetings, and was never presenting, only watching and talking, so maybe never used some important but non-working feature.

I’ve honestly never had any issues with it but our use case is pretty light so I’m not sure what other people are missing from it

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by Ekaros »

lampshades wrote: post #5

This really is the techpocalypse, huh? I’m young (35) but I’ve never seen layoffs so continuous. I wonder how far into the year this will go and if we’ll ever come back. Maybe companies truly will start offshoring.

It is all cyclical really. The last cycle was very long, but now it will go down again for a while and then later pick up again. I have kinda been expecting some sort of downturn for a while. Covid bit messed the time line, but now it seems to be happening with vengeance.
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