I think it's worth noting that they let staff cover the event yesterday, and then surprised (some of) them with a layoff today. Classy.
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#12I think it's worth noting that they let staff cover the event yesterday, and then surprised (some of) them with a layoff today. Classy.
I don't see anything unclassy about laying off workers after a big event. I'm assuming there's a decline of work after a big event, so if they're financially hurting a decline would be the correct time to have layoffs.
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#13I think it's worth noting that they let staff cover the event yesterday, and then surprised (some of) them with a layoff today. Classy.
Surely that's better than laying them off the day before the event?
Attending events like the one yesterday has to be one of the best perks of the job, and if any of the employees had wind of what was coming, it would have been a great place to network for their next opportunity.
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#14What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
Print media is dying.
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#16I think it's worth noting that they let staff cover the event yesterday, and then surprised (some of) them with a layoff today. Classy.
Surely that's better than laying them off the day before the event? Attending events like the one yesterday has to be one of the best perks of the job, and if any of the employees had wind of what was coming, it would have been a great place to network for their next opportunity.
Attending events like the one yesterday has to be one of the best perks of the job
Are you serious? Live blogging events like that is utter misery. Constant stress for an entire day.
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Surely that's better than laying them off the day before the event? Attending events like the one yesterday has to be one of the best perks of the job, and if any of the employees had wind of what was coming, it would have been a great place to network for their next opportunity.
Attending events like the one yesterday has to be one of the best perks of the job Are you serious? Live blogging events like that is utter misery. Constant stress for an entire day.
(Shrug) Stressful or not, it's one of those jobs that someone, somewhere, will cheerfully do for free.
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#18Bigger than Macworld. IDG, the parent company, has seen better days. They killed the print editions of Computerworld and CSO not long ago.
They started with InfoWorld in 2007.
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#19I think it's worth noting that they let staff cover the event yesterday, and then surprised (some of) them with a layoff today. Classy.
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"Or waited a while after?"
Perhaps they think that there is a money tree that you just shake to pay employee salaries.
I think a comment like the parent (or perhaps that attitude) comes from a failure to realize that in the traditional business world business needs to operate at a profit. There is no runway like the startup runway.
Business and life isn't fair and it's not about hurt feelings. And you can't let personal emotions and feelings get in the way of sound business decisions. (This comes from someone who has and has seen what happens as a result...)
It's entirely possible that the laid off employees were fully aware of the pending demise and failed to take their own action first to their benefit (which for sure they would have done with "2 weeks notice" if they could).
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#20What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
The magazine market seems to be the worst possible use case for print, especially in the tech sector. With newspapers, at least you are only ever 1 day or maybe 1 week (sunday edition) behind the news, and its all general interest so there's probably something your reader hasn't read about in there.
On the contrary, look at the core demographic of a tech magazine to begin with: people obsessed enough to buy an entire magazine about one company's products. Add to that that that company's devotees are tech savvy and want the information yesterday, and you have a recipe for disaster for a magazine that comes out a month later with info.