Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
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.
Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)
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in reply to alyaza [they/she] • • •If we in the West ever manage to extricate ourselves from intentionally convoluted laws that allowed these entities to come into being, I hope businesses with any vague hint of appearance resembling these perfidious demons from the ninth circle of hell are bound like wicked watchers and cast into crevices under rocks above lava.
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in reply to AudaciousArmadillo • • •That is exploitation not success.
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in reply to etherphon • • •That's typical for most construction projects.
If I'm going to build a building or a bridge, the number of people required to build is far more than the number of people required to maintain.
It looks like we're starting to hit the same issue with websites. You need a maintenance staff for websites, but no where near the level of staff required to build the thing.
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in reply to alyaza [they/she] • • •Well, I guess thats the end of Vimeo
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in reply to alyaza [they/she] • • •Well, I guess in this case, there WERE spoons.
I wonder if DailyMotion is hiring?
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in reply to Shadow • • •That's why Evernote went the way it did? Oh, that makes me sad. That was an incredible resource in grad school. OCR saved my ass on my PhD exams. Hand written notes, scanned at the library copier, organized and OCR. Immensely useful for a test (take home) that takes three days and covers two years of classes.
I stopped using it about 5 years ago because it just started to feel off. Little things not working or a UI change I didn't like. Plus the pricing was restrictive in a way I couldn't justify it anymore.
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in reply to alyaza [they/she] • • •private equity?
‘nuff said. fuck private equity.
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in reply to turdburglar • • •I'm now realizing ive never seen enough shortened as 'nough, it's always 'nuff.
That's funny.