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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the troupe is “ very short - staff ” amid WordPress’songoing dramatic play with WP Engine , which hosts websites built on WordPress . The WordPress co - beginner took the stagecoach atTechCrunch Disrupt 2024on Wednesday .
The saga start when Mullenweg send for WP railway locomotive a “ genus Cancer to WordPress . ” Mullenweg called out WP Engine , claiming that they do n’t contribute sufficiently to the candid source projection and that WP Engine ’s purpose of the “ WP ” stain has confused customers into believing it is part of WordPress .
The dispute has led to pushback from engineers , and even Automattic employee . On October 3,159 Automattic employeeswho did n’t correspond with Mullenweg ’s direction of the company and WordPress overall took a severance software program and leave the company .
After 159 Automattic employees demand the first deal , which included six month of breach , Mullenweg post another alignment offer on Automattic Slack on October 17 . This second tidy sum offerednine months of severance , but employee only had four hours to react .
“ With the first muckle , we tailor off your enter the same Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , ” Mullenweg said . “ The second deal , we said , hey 159 leave . We ’ve seen a huge encouragement in concern , so we ’re hiring as fast as you’re able to . So the 2d deal , if you ’re the leaker , we ’ll abridge off access now . But , for others , we might call for them to continue on until possibly next year , just because we ’re very dead - staffed , so we kind of need to engage , so there were some other citizenry that have taken it . ”
Mullenweg confirmed that before the saga start out , Automattic had roughly 1,900 employee , and that the head count is now at around 1,700 .
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The WordPress Centennial State - beginner confirmed that Automattic hired 26 people in October amid the drama .
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