A Message from Hayden Brown, Upwork CEO

> First: these actions are not taking place today. We will be notifying everyone next week about whether their role is impacted

this seems like a pretty terrible way to do a layoff. announce on a Thursday "25% of you will be laid off" but wait until some unspecified time next week for the actual notifications?

this is going to cause a lot of unnecessary stress and anxiety among the 75% who are staying. if I was in that group, it would not boost my confidence in the company's leadership.

"AI means smaller, differently resourced teams in product and engineering can make a bigger impact than ever.

Fewer layers means faster decisions. Flatter is better, and our new structure will optimize for this."

Edit: Sounds like the Coinbase post from the other day.

Old text: Sounds like the "Building for the future" Cloudflare post from the other day.

That's old hat. CEOs have said after every layoff since 1985.

25% reduction