Expanding the list of tech companies laying off their employees amidst global economic turmoil, GitHub announced cutting 10% of their workforce today.
That represents about 300 employees – who all be ditched by this year’s end. Further, the company continues to freeze it’s hiring process, moving to Teams for video conferences, increasing the laptop refresh cycle from three to four years, and shutting down physical office locations due to low utilization.
GitHub Workforce Reduction
Following the suite of others in this space, GitHub announced it’s workforce reduction plans to stay afloat during the ongoing economic downturn. We’ve seen multiple companies, including the tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc., ditching thousands of employees lately, citing similar reasons.
And now, GitHub joins the club with an announcement from it’s CEO to the staff. In his email sent today, Thomas Dohmke wrote
“We are announcing a number of difficult decisions, including saying goodbye to some Hubbers and enacting new budgetary realignments.”
To protect the short-term health of GitHub, the company is dumping 10% of it’s workforce by the end of 2023. It had an estimated 3,000 employees across the globe before this announcement, so the latest layoffs represent around 300 people.
Further, it’s also shutting down all it’s offices as their leases end and also because of their underutilization – to become the remote-first culture. The company continues to freeze it’s hiring process, it announced in January, and made several moves to cut even the lowest of costs.
In what seemed unorthodox practice considering GitHub’s pride in being independent, the complete now wants to use Microsoft Teams for all it’s video conferencing needs, stick to Slack for day-to-day collaborations as usual, and increase the laptop refresh cycle from three to four years!
Wanting the company to be a “developer-first engineering system for the world of tomorrow,” CEO Thomas Dohmke says;
“I recognize this will be difficult on you all, and we will approach this period with the utmost respect for every Hubber”.
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