Twitter se renueva: despide a 336 empleados
Jack Dorsey ha enviado hoy una carta en la que comenta uno de los efectos de este nuevo plan de reestructuración interna: será necesario despedir al 8% de la plantilla de la empresa, algo necesario para poder moverse más rápido dentro de la compañía.
El departamento de ingeniería será uno de los más afectados, ya que quieren apostar por un equipo más pequeño para poder eliminar burocracia y agilizar el proceso de lanzamiento de novedades.
Comentan en re/code que Twitter estaba “hinchada” por dentro, principalmente en la parte de ingeniería, y eso estaba complicando mucho el proceso de creación y determinación de responsabilidades. Es necesario dejar clara la propiedad de ciertos productos internos, menos responsables que puedan concentrarse en los proyectos.
Los despidos serán caros: más de 15 millones de dólares, pero esperan recuperar esa cantidad en breve (de hecho las acciones han subido ligeramente después de la noticia)
Esta es la carta del nuevo CEO a los empleados:
From: Jack Dorsey
To: All Employees
Date: October 13, 2015
Subject: A more focused Twitter
Team,
We are moving forward with a restructuring of our workforce so we can put our company on a stronger path to grow. Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I’m going to give it to you straight.
The team has been working around the clock to produce streamlined roadmap for Twitter, Vine, and Periscope and they are shaping up to be strong. The roadmap is focused on the experiences which will have the greatest impact. We launched the first of these experiences last week with Moments, a great beginning, and a bold peek into the future of how people will see what’s going on in the world.
The roadmap is also a plan to change how we work, and what we need to do that work. Product and Engineering are going to make the most significant structural changes to reflect our plan ahead. We feel strongly that Engineering will move much faster with a smaller and nimbler team, while remaining the biggest percentage of our workforce. And the rest of the organization will be streamlined in parallel.
So we have made an extremely tough decision: we plan to part ways with up to 336 people from across the company. We are doing this with the utmost respect for each and every person. Twitter will go to great lengths to take care of each individual by providing generous exit packages and help finding a new job.
Let’s take this time to express our gratitude to all of those who are leaving us. We will honor them by doing our best to serve all the people that use Twitter. We do so with a more purpose-built team, which we’ll continue to build strength into over time, as we are now enabled to reinvest in our most impactful priorities.
Thank you all for your trust and understanding here. This isn’t easy. But it is right. The world needs a strong Twitter, and this is another step to get there. As always, please reach out to me directly with any ideas or questions.
Jack