Twitch staff warned jobs are \u201cat risk\u201d with more potential layoffs before TwitchCon Unsplash.com: Caspar Camille RubinA number of Twitch employees are claiming they\u2019ve been warned their positions are \u201cat risk\u201d mere weeks before TwitchCon is set to kick off in Las Vegas. As layoffs continue to plague the tech industry, employees at Twitch claim they\u2019re facing another potential round of dismissals following a previous mass layoff at Amazon earlier this year. The issue was first revealed the morning of October 3, 2023, with employees at Twitch sounding off that they\u2019d been informed their positions were potentially \u201cat risk.\u201d Workers at Twitch have been posting similar statements across Twitter\/X, with many claiming they haven\u2019t been officially let go, but are worried their jobs might be deemed \u201credundant\u201d if things go south. However, other posts claim that layoffs have happened or will happen, with one employee stating: \u201cI\u2019ve survived another round of layoffs at Twitch, but my soul is absolutely crushed into grains of sand. I am beyond words for my colleagues.\u201d Twitch employees worried as jobs deemed \u201cat risk\u201d Thus far, nothing has been confirmed or denied by Twitch, leaving the community in the dark as to what\u2019s next for the streaming platform. These possible layoffs come mere weeks before TwitchCon is set to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, where a host of major streamers are likely to attend one of the year\u2019s biggest events in the online broadcasting space. This news also follows another major round of layoffs for Twitch that took place earlier this year, when Amazon let go of approximately 10,000 employees \u2014 which also affected Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. That\u2019s not all; this news also follows a major update for streaming fans, as broadcaster KingGothalion claimed to have received an email from Twitch CEO Dan Clancy hoping to create a \u201cquick and dirty\u201d fix for streamers abusing embedded broadcasts to gain more views. For now, we\u2019ll just have to wait and see what happens as more and more employees come forward with similar statements about the possible stats of their positions at the streaming giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch staff warned jobs are \u201cat risk\u201d with more potential layoffs before TwitchCon Unsplash.com: Caspar Camille RubinA number of Twitch employees are claiming they\u2019ve been warned their positions are \u201cat risk\u201d mere weeks before TwitchCon is set to kick off in Las Vegas. As layoffs continue to plague the tech industry, employees at Twitch claim […]<\/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-62446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62446","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=62446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}