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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
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or early the next week.</p><h1 id=fri-24-mar-2023>Fri 24 Mar 2023<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#fri-24-mar-2023>#</a></h1><p>The day started with an announcement that Twitch would layoff 1/5th of its workforce. The anticipation of this moment through the
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whole week left hundreds of us with a sick feeling in our stomachs. They had split the layoffs up between APAC, EMEA, And AMER.
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APAC on the chopping block first. We saw people loose access and numbers from our #general slack channel dither. Each Region had
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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
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wave of people and have hopes that you might just be one of the people to survive.</p><p>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
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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.
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The #general channel is almost a bone yard.</p><p>In my team the GSOC we lost our technicians, these amazing folk made our lives - the engineers - much easier as we no longer needed
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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
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the way we got used to working. Our workflows have been disrupted and thus productivity has dropped massively. But not only when
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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
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interactions.</p><h1 id=conclusion>Conclusion<a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#conclusion>#</a></h1><p>If you’re reading this and you are a recruiter then please talk into account ex-twitch employees effected by this tragic event.</p><p>Shout outs to:</p><ul><li><a href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-limantzakis/ target=_blank>Anastasia Limantzakis</a></li><li><a href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoria-bagley-97a669206/ target=_blank>Viktoria (Viki) Bagley</a></li></ul></div><footer class=post-footer><ul class=post-tags><li><a href=https://blog.ahmza.com/tags/career/>career</a></li><li><a href=https://blog.ahmza.com/tags/twitch/>twitch</a></li></ul></footer></article></main><footer class=footer><span>© 2023 <a href=https://blog.ahmza.com>ahmza's ramblings</a></span>
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