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The Virtual Whirl
Hot topic of the week would be
the Linden Lab layoffs. 30% of the staff (roughly 110 or so individuals) were laid off this week in a round of layoffs
that we spotted ahead of the official announcements. Additional staff have been shed since the beginning of the year.
Staff have been dropped from market-development, business development, engineering, quality assurance, human resources, community and executive management. Hardest hit this week are community and customer-advocacy roles and quality-assurance/testing.
What
isn't hard to see is why these cuts were made, and in fact, why they are
vital to Linden Lab as a going concern. At least it isn't hard to see when you're looking in the right place.
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Arcade
12-10-2010, 09:00 AM
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