Starting in the technology sector in late 2022 and early 2023 wave of layoffsWell, recently it started happening again. Many tech giants, from Unity to Twitch, from Amazon to Google, decided to lay off their employees.

Now such news comes from another company. Messaging and voice chat platform that is especially popular among gamers Disagreementannounced it would reduce its workforce.

17% of the total workforce will be laid off

According to the company’s statement, the layoff move has resulted in a total number of employees 17% will have an effect on. this too around 170 It corresponds to the employee. CEO Jason Citron announced the layoffs in a message to employees.

Citron said in its statement:“to sharpen our focus and bring agility to our organizations.” He stated that they had taken such a step. It is known that Discord is not in a bad financial situation, although it is still not a fully profitable company. Therefore, it is surprising that he took such a step.

However, according to the CEO, the layoff has less to do with the financial situation and more to do with the number of people recently hired. The message sent describes the development of Discord in recent years increases the number of employees It was stated that the company was focusing on more projects and this was causing productivity to decline. “Hiring too many people” is a common excuse used by industry executives when implementing layoffs lately.

This isn’t the first layoff Discord has made recently. The company said goodbye to 4% of its employees in August.

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