Different former staff echo this assertion in posts on-line, with one video engineer saying “nearly everybody” on the firm was laid off, “together with the whole video group.” One other software engineer says he was laid off together with “a big quantity of the corporate.”
Earlier this week, Israeli outlet CTech reported that Vimeo is shedding “most” of its staff within the nation. It marks the corporate’s second spherical of layoffs in lower than six months, because it laid off 10 % of staff in September — only one week earlier than Bending Spoons introduced plans to accumulate it.
The layoffs increase considerations about how this would possibly affect the content material hosted on the platform, such because the comedy shows created by Dropout. The Verge reached out to Vimeo and Bending Spoons with a request for extra info however didn’t instantly hear again.
Bending Spoons doesn’t have a fantastic monitor report with regards to acquisitions and layoffs. The corporate has laid off workers throughout lots of the corporations it has bought through the years, together with WeTransfer, Filmic, and Evernote.
