Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees
> Like many companies, our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment, and user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations. In order to run our business sustainably, we’ve made the very difficult decision to shrink the size of our workforce.Let's just take a moment to admire this paragraph.> "our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment"There's that passive, vague non-word again: "impacted". Such a milquetoast way to say "something happened" but without that pesky specificity.> "user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations"So, they are growing, but not growing faster than some [arbitrary] goal?> "In order to run our business sustainably"Wait, I thought revenue was growing! How is that not sustainable? If you just leave costs where they are and let revenue grow, you are by definition sustaining/growing the bottom line.> "we’ve made the very difficult decision to shrink the size of our workforce"This is what I don't get about all of these layoff letters. It's always the same thing: We're growing, our revenue is growing, and [usually unsaid] our costs are growing. So why not just arrest the cost growth? Stop the bleeding, don't start amputating limbs. I can understand layoffs when your business is running at a loss, not when it's growing.