According to people familiar with the matter, Amazon's livestreaming **Twitch Service plans to lay off about 500 people, about 35% of the total number of employees. Bloomberg expects the layoffs to be announced today.
This layoff is less than a year after the last one! In March 2023, Twitch laid off more than 400 employees. The layoffs come amid concerns about Twitch's losses, after several of the company's executives left in just a few months.
The company's executives have said that while Twitch relies on Amazon's infrastructure, the cost of running a large scale that supports 1.8 billion hours of live content per month is very high. Danclancy, the CEO of Twitch, said in a blog post last December that the company would cease operations in South Korea because the cost there was "prohibitively expensive." One acre and three points of land**There are also many friends to discuss!
Everyone thinks: "There will be no fewer layoffs this year, and large factories dare not let go of recruitment." ”
Hehe, the death knell is ringing. Brother has long emphasized that this time the linen leadership has learned the lesson of laying off 18k employees in 2023, and let you prepare in advance without prior notice. After Christmas and the New Year, the direct sword action will be cut, and the direct pull of l8 into the club will make l8 directly confused! Look, the number of non-PIP layoffs in 2024 must exceed 20KA lot of users are also analyzing the reasonsTerrible, this is already the third round.
35% is very high... It seems that the game business is not good.
I still fantasize that it is getting better, and now it is getting worse and worse.
What's even more terrifying is that 2 hours ago, a friend posted in the forum of One Acre and Three Points: Prime Video layoffs!
Source: One acre and three points of land** The copyright belongs to the original author, and everyone sighed
This again