Sodapoppin shocked over Twitch layoffs with staff not told who has lost their job Sodapoppin was shocked to discover that the Twitch employees dismissed on March 20 were not told who was being laid off before the public announcement. The layoffs are part of wider layoffs across Amazon, Twitch\u2019s parent company, which involve cutting around 9,000 staffers. This means that Twitch will see 400 people leave its team. Sodapoppin, who uses Twitch as his platform of choice, was reading the briefing when he realized the staffers had not been told who was leaving the company. \u201cWait, the people who got fired don\u2019t even know who yet? Oh my god. That\u2019s crazy. \u201cI mean I don\u2019t know how this kind of stuff works, I\u2019m just a stupid streamer. But that sucks. That\u2019s got to be stressful as f*ck. \u201cThere are 1100 people working and 400 people got fired? That\u2019s almost half. That\u2019s a 50% chance. Why is Twitch laying off so many people? These dismissals are part of Amazon\u2019s wider business strategy to cut down on staff numbers. In a memo, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that the push in recent years to rapidly hire more people across Amazon had made economic sense, but that the current instability meant it was now time to rollback on some of those expansions. He said: \u201cGiven the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount.\u201d For more news on Twitch, check out our coverage of Twitch\u2019s new CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sodapoppin shocked over Twitch layoffs with staff not told who has lost their job Sodapoppin was shocked to discover that the Twitch employees dismissed on March 20 were not told who was being laid off before the public announcement. The layoffs are part of wider layoffs across Amazon, Twitch\u2019s parent company, which involve cutting around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}