Zoom on Thursday confirmed that it's cutting about 2% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to announce layoffs.
Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce::Zoom on Thursday confirmed that it's cutting about 2% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to announce layoffs.
I know some of them/some ex ones. When COVID hit they became a household name where everyone and their grandma knew about them and they thought they would become the next Google. Hired like crazy, employees with old stock grants were millionaires for a while (didn't last) and then the hype died down and everyone realized they could do the same thing for free through one of the various other tech platforms.
In other news the CEO of Philip Morris says, “cigarettes are not cool and kill people.”
Even if there was any truth to the benefit of a shared workspace, why would this moron advocate for it? I swear CEOs are acting like the Producers more and more every day.
Even with just video conference software you need a lot of employees for the quality zoom has. It handles audio and video very well even in unstable networks. Their backgrounds and blurring has also massively improved in the last couple years.
Oh yeah! They're constantly adding new features. Latest I've noticed and used is their AI Companion.
Tried it out with one of our managers. We shot the shit for 45-miuntes, got the transcript an hour later.
I was more than a little stunned. It caught all the highlights, mostly ignored the bullshitting talk, and provided a great summation of our meeting. I wouldn't expect a human to have done such a good job. It was kinda eerie.
And like KazuyaDarklight noted, Zoom is our complete phone system. We're not big enough for the call center options, but the integrations are there.
capitalist/billionaire/asshole class: "fuck everyone but us...those cogs served their purpose...now we can run the machine without them. We're the only REAL humans on this planet. No one else has feelings or anything. Clearly we need to do this to save us all. Sorry. Not sorry. I also deserve more money now & I can do this whenever I want because there's no consequences from the money I am stealing every single day"