Twilio to cut 17% staff, close offices to focus on profitability

[dev_tty01]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twilio-cut-17-staff-close-offices-focus-profitability-2023-02-13/

[sethammons]

Dup from an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773865

[dang → sethammons]

Comments moved thither. Thanks!

[seandoe → dang]

Thank you for introducing me to the word thither.

[yellow_lead → sethammons]

Why's it hidden from the frontpage?

edit: its second for me.. guess the algorithm prioritizes newness or something

[dang → yellow_lead]

A few reasons, including that it set off the flamewar detector a.k.a. overheated discussion detector; and we downweighted it because there have been countless yet-another-layoffs-story posts recently, so the bar for interestingness has to be higher. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... on the latter point. Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

[yellow_lead → dang]

Makes sense, thanks dang

[speedgoose → yellow_lead]

It got many comments quickly and I guess the HN anti flame ware algorithm deprioritised the post.

[esel2k]

What do they do with the closed offices? Moved to remote or completely removing those locations incl all employees there?