WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff

AutomaticallyThe company between WordPress.com, Tumblr, Woocommerce and a number of other online services reduces the workforce. Jumps will affect the sections of 16% of employees, a Automatic blog post published on Wednesday.

Ahead of Layrof, 1744 employees of the submachine gun may have lost their work in northern 270 people. (Automattic refused to confirm this number but we hear exact number 281.)

The post, which previously shared with the company’s employees, explains that this “reconstruction” is necessary for the development of market competition and technology.

However, the movement comes in a year after a submachine gun controversial legal battle With the Hosting Company WP engine. Ongoing drama Has already led to a final fall on the course of some submachineers. In the Review of Matt Mullenweg, the hosting supplier WP engine did not contribute to the open source project and linked the WIT “Word” with WordPress.

In Wednesday announcement, Mullenweg said that the newly declared work will be “more flexible and responsible”.

“We need to develop our productivity, profitability and investment capacity to support our customers and products,” Mullenweg reads the author.

The floors will affect employees in 90 countries that will receive a cutting package and job accommodation among other things.

“Automatic has a lot of products with the potential to touch on WordPress and beyond the Internet to create a live, affordable, well-designed company, which continues to democratize,” Mullenweg.

Techcrunch sources said that the withdrawals were immediately effective, ie people received an email and then lost immediately slowly. Ten years of the floors include some long time employees, which are in the north of the company, understand.

The news also automatically announced the abolition of Grand Meonup for 2005, “Grand Meonup said.

After publication, we began to hear more about what orgs are affected by various sources. According to at least one source, only north, Woocommerce from 100. We also heard that Tumblr, the first day and AI Orgs. In the United States, LIGHROPs, including accounts, marketing, product (management and design), sales, community, business operations and other roles, including the roles. The default cutting package is only 9 weeks.

Sarah Perez can be reached at @ Sarahperz.01 to the signal and sarahp@techcrunch.com. This story has been updated after publication with more information.