Why Layoffs Don't Work

Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by billy99k on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:24AM (#43309853)

Well, it worked for Twitter. Lots of people screamed that Twitter would implode withing 6 months, after the massive cuts. There was some scrambling for a while, but I haven't noticed any issues. In fact, they've added tons of new features and Grok AI (which is much better than competitors).

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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by dpkirchner on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:38AM (#43310028)

Last I heard Twitter is so desperate they've resorted to suing former customers who stopped buying poorly performing ad space.

Edit: removed supposition

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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by Nextgrid on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:12PM (#43310483)

This has nothing to do with the tech side of things though? In fact the business was always on shaky grounds even before the acquisition.

From a tech perspective, the company was indeed massively bloated with tons of people clearly not contributing anything.

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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by slackernews9 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:07PM (#43311911)

There go the goal posts, whooshing by at the speed of sound.

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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by s1artibartfast on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:47PM (#43311664)

My understanding is that twitter's struggles are/were a result of advertiser and customer boycotts, not site functionality.

People were aghast at the brutality of the layoffs, and ideological direction. However, my impression was that there was in fact a tremendous amount of bloat.

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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by thrance on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:34PM (#43310757)

If by worked you mean steadily losing users for the first time in the history of the platform and a 0.2x of the company's valuation, then sure. That worked.

And what's that about Grok AI being better than the competition? I think I misheard.

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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by astrange on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:52PM (#43312368)

They fired all the mods and sales reps, so the company no longer makes money because it can't sell ads.

They mostly haven't added new features either, just turned on some flags for features in testing.

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Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work by jmholla on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:40PM (#43312903)

They also removed old features. Or can we look at threads without being logged in? It's clear people who say Twitter didn't change don't remember at all what Twitter was like.

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