{"id":2411,"date":"2025-04-04T13:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/automattic-lays-off-281-people-across-90-countries-the-web-reacts\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:38:20","slug":"automattic-lays-off-281-people-across-90-countries-the-web-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/automattic-lays-off-281-people-across-90-countries-the-web-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Automattic Lays Off 281 People Across 90 Countries: The Web Reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/iotvnaw69daj.i.optimole.com\/cb:mLvy.66914\/w:150\/h:150\/q:90\/rt:fill\/g:ce\/f:best\/https:\/\/wpshout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Automattic-Lays-Off.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Automattic Lays Off\" \/>On Tuesday, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sent ripples throughout the WordPress community with a blog post announcing the layoff of 281 employees \u2013 representing 16% of Automattic\u2019s workforce. Employees were first notified via internal message before the news was made public later in the day on Automattic\u2019s website. While acknowledging continued revenue growth, he cited\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpshout.com\/automattic-lays-off-16-percent-of-workforce\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More \u00bb<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Automattic Lays Off 281 People Across 90 Countries: The Web Reacts<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sent ripples throughout the WordPress community with a blog post announcing the layoff of 281 employees \u2013 representing 16% of Automattic\u2019s workforce. Employees were first notified via internal message before the news was made public later in the day on Automattic\u2019s website. While acknowledging continued revenue growth, he cited\u2026\u00a0Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytebrainblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}