> He said the layoffs would be “just under 4% in total.”
> “We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products,” Hicks wrote.
They are not touching development or sales. Sounds like they are trimming some fat.
> “We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products,” Hicks wrote.
They are not touching development or sales. Sounds like they are trimming some fat.
I don't think you can say that with such certainty. This could lead to developers spending more time doing admin, that was previously done by other people.
Regardless, it sucks for the people being lade off, even if they are not touching development or sales.
The rest of your argument can be true, or not. It all depends on how useful the work of the lade off people was. You know there are positions in large corporations who basically just don't do anything, don't you?
Sure, but my default assumption isn't that layoffs effectively target folks pretending to be busy.
But I'm also sure that you can't really judge perfectly on a case by case, so absolutely good people will be affected by this.