Suoratoistoalusta Twitch on päättänyt aloittaa vuoden 2024 irtisanomalla rapia 500 työntekijäänsä. Juttu liittyy Amazonin tarpeeseen vähentää viihdeosastojensa kuluja. Noin kolmannes Twitchin väestä menettää työnsä. Blogissa Twitchin toimitusjohtaja Dan Clancy kertoi asiasta.
"Over the last year, we've been working to build a more sustainable business so that Twitch will be here for the long run and throughout the year we have cut costs and made many decisions to be more efficient. Unfortunately, despite these efforts, it has become clear that our organization is still meaningfully larger than it needs to be given the size of our business."
"Last year we paid out over $1 billion to streamers. So while the Twitch business remains strong, for some time now the organization has been sized based upon where we optimistically expect our business to be in 3 or more years, not where we're at today. As with many other companies in the tech space, we are now sizing our organization based upon the current scale of our business and conservative predictions of how we expect to grow in the future."
Edelleen Reutersin mukaan Amazon Prime Video ja Amazon MGM Studios ovat niin ikään irtisanomisten kohteena.