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+title: Twitch Layoffs
+date: 2023-03-29T12:39:05+01:00
+author: "ahmza"
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+tags: ["career","twitch"]
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+# Mon 20 Mar 2023
+The news was broken to all Twitch employees that there was going to be a mass layoff that would nuke 1/5th of Twitch's workforce,
+Just over 400 employees. We were not given a date that this would happen we were just told that it would be by the end of the week
+or early the next week.
+
+# Fri 24 Mar 2023
+The day started with an announcement that Twitch would layoff 1/5th of its workforce. The anticipation of this moment through the
+whole week left hundreds of us with a sick feeling in our stomachs. They had split the layoffs up between APAC, EMEA, And AMER.
+APAC on the chopping block first. We saw people loose access and numbers from our #general slack channel dither. Each Region had
+a 5 hour window where people would get dropped in waves. You were lucky to get dropped straight away instead of be part of the last
+wave of people and have hopes that you might just be one of the people to survive.
+
+Luckily I was one of the folk that was able to keep their jobs this time. But 1/5th of the workforce has surely affected every person
+that works at twitch. We all lost somebody we worked with or reported to and so morale has tanked this past week, and you can see it.
+The #general channel is almost a bone yard. 
+
+In my team the GSOC we lost our technicians, these amazing folk made our lives - the engineers - much easier as we no longer needed
+to worry about emails and phone calls. Now that the Techs have gone this workload has been thrown back at us and it has shaken up
+the way we got used to working. Our workflows have been disrupted and thus productivity has dropped massively. But not only when
+it comes to work will we miss these people, The two Technicians that I worked with made the shift lively and I already miss our
+interactions.
+
+# Conclusion
+If you're reading this and you are a recruiter then please talk into account ex-twitch employees effected by this tragic event.
+
+Shout outs to:
+- [Anastasia Limantzakis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-limantzakis/)
+- [Viktoria (Viki) Bagley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoria-bagley-97a669206/)

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