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Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team' (gizmodo.com)

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Vimeo just got hit by another round of layoffs, and it sounds like it was a big one.

Business Insider reported earlier [last] week that the video hosting site had cut jobs across its global workforce.

“Yesterday, following Vimeo’s recent acquisition by a private equity firm, I learned that I, along with a large portion of the company, was impacted by layoffs,” wrote the company’s former vice president of Global Brand & Creative, Dave Brown, in a post on LinkedIn.

A software engineer said in their own LinkedIn post that they were laid off along with a “gigantic amount of the company.” And a former Vimeo staffer also posted on X that “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team.

The news comes just months after the Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last year. Vimeo had previously cut its workforce by 10% in September.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago

All the more reason to outlaw and ruthlessly discourage any attempts to do it again, regardless of how innocuous an actor tries to sell it. The billionaires didn't implement their policies in one fell blow, they are centuries patient and cunning. Like the serpent didn't actually lie, it just failed to tell the entire truth, and/or didn't grasp all the unforseen (latent) possibilities and their implications, leading the first self-aware astray. That's not entirely bad, a long, winding path of learning painfully can yield invaluable lessons, the "badness" is in allowing whitewashing and revisionist history, which should have the head crushed under the heel, figuratively speaking.