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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (techcrunch.com)
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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Curious.

I keep a close eye on the job listings posted to Mozilla's job board. They don't post new job openings very often, so I always want to be tuned in when new listing pop up. All of a sudden, a lot of new job openings have appeared for a company that just laid off 36 people...

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 hours ago

Those are job postings at the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, the layoffs happened at the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

They're theoretically connected, in that the Corporation is a subsidiary of the Foundation, but to my knowledge, they practically don't hand money from the Foundation to the Corporation, because the Corporation has magnitudes more money anyways.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 7 points 7 hours ago

Layoffs sometimes mean freeing up salaries for different positions (e.g. a company pivoting). Curious jobs though, not really sure what to read from those tea leaves....