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GitHub is also going fully remote (zero offices, current offices will close at end of lease) and reducing headcount by 10% :(

Statement will be coming out shortly I guess. I wonder if they knew Gitlab were going to be doing layoffs too and so waited them out.

Is that part of the Microsoft layoff?

It was announced this morning- during the initial Microsoft layoffs they were told GitHub wasn't impacted.

This doesn't even make sense, I can't imagine that there was a huge surge in demand for Github due to the pandemic that has now dissipated.

Not that I am aware of. Microsoft did not include GitHub in their numbers so I am thinking this is in addition.