Thread regarding Zoom layoffs

Zoom to cut 15% of staff as tech layoffs continue, execs cut own pay; stock jumps

Zoom Video Communications Inc. (ZM)plans to lay off 1,300 workers, cutting its staff by 15%, Chief Executive Eric Yuan announced Tuesday. In a blog post, Yuan noted that he had tripled Zoom's workforce during the pandemic, and "made mistakes." "We didn't take as much time as we should have to thoroughly analyze our teams or assess if we were growing sustainably, toward the highest priorities," he wrote. Yuan said he would cut his own pay by 98% and forego any corporate bonus in the 2023 fiscal year, and that other executive leaders will receive 20% pay cuts and no bonuses as well. Zoom shares jumped to 7% gains on the news Tuesday, after previously trading less than 1% higher.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20230207322/zoom-to-cut-15-of-staff-as-tech-layoffs-continue-execs-cut-own-pay-stock-jumps

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Compared to most of the other tech layoffs, I think Zoom did a much better job of it, all things considered. C-suite takes a pay cut, 4 months severance and RSUs vesting through August. Nobody was tossed mid-meeting. There wasn't a lot of time, but people had a chance to say goodbye, and this is still ongoing outside of US. It's hard to tell exactly how the cuts were decided, as I have seen high performers get cut right next to low performers.

On the other hand, I think this could have been avoided to some degree. Zoom was too afraid to do performance management a year ago when things slowed down, and the bar was set really low for a while. I'm hoping they will pick things up from this point....but let's see...

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Post ID: @1huk+1l4yVrBF

what a load of sh1t, that's not what happened.

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Post ID: @1pdu+1l4yVrBF

Which teams are impacted?

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Post ID: @bsj+1l4yVrBF

Zoom laid off employees using Zoom? How ironic.

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Post ID: @xyy+1l4yVrBF

It's pretty shifty for a company like Zoom who companies all over the world host Zoom meetings for layoffs decide to host a meeting for Zoom layoffs and kick those people out of the freaking meeting so the layoff people have no idea what's going on. At this point a company like Zoom could be using other companies experience with laying off on Zoom

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