'I'm still shocked': Tech workers offer insider account of mass layoffs

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'I'm still shocked': Tech workers offer insider account of mass layoffs
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'I'm still shocked and just trying to sort through feelings and think about what I need to do.'

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Around 5:14 am, Ajiwe says she received a calendar invite requesting her attendance in a one-on-one meeting with someone on Spotify's HR team.Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Houston native is a 2016 graduate from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in public relations. She'd worked for a plethora of companies in the industry such as Billboard, Genius, Sirius XM and XXL Magazine but always saw her career at Spotify as "unattainable."

"Like many other leaders, I hoped to sustain the strong tailwinds from the pandemic and believed that our broad global business and lower risk to the impact of a slowdown in ads would insulate us," Ek said. "In hindsight, I was too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth." Bellack says he woke up at about 5 a.m. on Jan. 20 and found an email telling him "'the company no longer has a position for you,'" he said.

"A lot of people had no idea that this was happening or that they might be involved," he said. "For them, it's obviously a shock." Last Friday, Gavin had a previously scheduled meeting with her boss, who told her she was being let go and that she should take the rest of the day off, she said. Vox Media, the parent company of Vox, laid off 130 workers, which amounts to 7% of its staff.Gavin, who worked at Vox for a little more than a year, oversaw the internal experience of employees, so she understood what her manager could and couldn't say about the decision.

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