stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to Games@sh.itjust.works · 8 months agoTwitch reportedly set to lay off around 500 employees later this weekwww.eurogamer.netexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1128arrow-down1external-linkTwitch reportedly set to lay off around 500 employees later this weekwww.eurogamer.netstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to Games@sh.itjust.works · 8 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
Just a day after Unity announced it would be laying off 1,800 employees as part of an ongoing “company reset”, it’s bei…
minus-squareAurix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 months agoLike with Twitter when Musk fired all these unproductive employees, suddenly even the backend went quickly downhill. Twitch will have a lot of social policing going on and deals with content creators and advertisers.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·8 months agoSure, but if they’re firing 500 employees, they probably have >2k total. That’s a lot! How many salespeople and content moderators do they need?
minus-squaretoasteecup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoBased on their recent rule changes, not that many content moderators
Like with Twitter when Musk fired all these unproductive employees, suddenly even the backend went quickly downhill. Twitch will have a lot of social policing going on and deals with content creators and advertisers.
Sure, but if they’re firing 500 employees, they probably have >2k total. That’s a lot! How many salespeople and content moderators do they need?
Based on their recent rule changes, not that many content moderators