Submitted 7 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.
Once Spotify changed their entire UI to focus on engagement instead of a good UX, I switched to another service. I wish the best for those employees that were laid off, and the worst for a CEO driven by profit above all else
May I ask what service you switched to? I’m tired of my music app being cluttered with podcasts and audio books. I use other services for this things and don’t need them in Spotify.
I switched to tidal. Recently had a huge price drop to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. It’s not perfect, but it has lossless audio, and works well for my needs
I use Deezer. It also has podcasts but they don’t shove it up your face, in fact I just checked and I don’t even see them on the app’s home screen. I have to specifically search for them.
Qbittorrent LMAO. Also some Russian music hosting sites that appear as quickly as they get taken down.
So he’s about to rehire all those people he laid off, right? Surely he’s not just saying this, but still expecting everyone who’s left to cover all the work he’s surprised by. Surely he knew these details before he fucked over a bunch of workers, right?
Pizza Party Fridays (5 pm - midnight, hackathon and 1/2 off pizza (plus tax))
Attendance mandatory!
Absolutely not and he’s learned nothing
“It took us some time to find our footing, but more than four months into this transition, I think we’re back on track and I expect to continue improving on our execution throughout the year getting us to an even better place than we’ve ever been.”
Paywalled hard
LOL they want 30 a month too
I mean it’s called fortune not broke ass \s
I was able to get it from here: archive.is/…/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklay…
My hero
Well, at least they gave them 5 months severance pay.
Didn't expect that
Might I suggest the employees unionize. That way they can make a fist and punch this guy in the proverbial dick.
They were in the process of unionising in Sweden, when the layoffs dropped. Some months later, Spotify cancelled talks about the proposed collective agreement, insisting a statement that Spotify employees don’t need unions because their working conditions are already exceedingly generous.
(A bit of background: workplace collective agreements are commonplace in Sweden. Spotify, though, seems to have tried to import US union-busting practices, not unlike Tesla.)
And let’s not get started on ‘Employer Unions’ like ALMEGA (which in my head is synonymous with Satan)
Hows that going for Tesla? Havent heard anything about that since the license plates
I don’t know if I could live with myself knowing how many lives I ruined, maybe that’s why the shit floats to the top. Sane people are not as accomplished because they “don’t make the tough decisions”.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
CEO does not understand who is doing work
tourist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
surely not the workers
all they do is sit in front of their desks for hours
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s two parts to being successful at a job: successfully accomplishing the work that fits into your role, and successfully messaging to your bosses that you’re doing a good job.
So when executives lay people off, it tends to catch people who are bad at that second task (the messaging/perception side), which may or may not include people who are good at the first task (actually doing good shit for the company).
That’s why mass layoffs are damaging, and should be avoided if possible.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Layoffs also shake every other employee in an immeasurable way.
Even if you didn’t lay someone off they may now change their priorities. Maybe they focus on the people pleaser tasks. Maybe they focus more on what is good for them to keep their job vs what is good for the company.
Layoffs should be a last resort but tech companies are just playing follow the leader right now. In a few years we’ll see memoirs and books stating “in hindsight we may have made a mistake, but we made the best decision we could with the information we had at the time”, it’s all absolutely bullshit. This is all being done for a temporary stock boost.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The CEO can’t apparently effectively communicate to his staff what the workflow priorities of the company should be and he’s blaming them for basically contributing to that workflow “inefficiently” because he’s a bad leader who obviously didn’t lay off the right people (middle managers).
Additionally he’s promising shareholders a pipedream he’s having trouble delivering on because they do not have control over the continued and rising cost of licensing and nobody seems to want to do anything at all about that. The whole industry is over a barrel and they just accept it. And so do we as consumers.