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Discord has become a anchor for many online communities in recent year , but its relative success has n’t screen the platform from the financial woes chivy the tech industry . Like other companies making sweeping stinger to their workforces this workweek , Discord is laying off 17 % of its stave , or about 170 masses .
In an interior memoobtained by the Verge , Discord CEO Jason Citron blamed over - hiring — echoing explanation that other technical school CEO have offer for recent layoff . The cuts were announced during an all - workforce merging on Thursday .
“ We maturate quickly and expanded our workforce even faster , increasing by 5x since 2020 , ” Citron said in the memorandum . “ As a result , we took on more projects and became less effective in how we operated . Today , we are increasingly percipient on the indigence to point our focus and improve the way we play together to fetch more legerity to our organization . This is what largely drove the decision to reduce the size of our workforce . ”
Discord watch massive increment during pandemic lockdowns , but still is n’t profitable , the Verge reports . Last August , Discord pose off 4 % of its stave — nearly 40 employee — as part of a ship’s company - wide restructuring . Many of the slash affect those in marketing , design and entertainment partnerships .
It ’s been a specially fell calendar week intech layoffs ; in the last few days , video game engineUnity shorten 1,800 jobs , Amazon - ownedTwitch laid off roughly 500 employeesandAmazon permit go of “ several hundred ” of Prime Video and MGM Studios stave . Audible , the audiobook company also possess by Amazon , trim back 5 % of its workforce .
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