DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, I could see them having a few hundred employees, but holy crap! That’s a lot of employees. What the hell do they all do?

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  • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sales, marketing and support most likely. It has a massive corporate userbase. I’m guessing the actual tech side of the house is only a small fraction.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They need to employ a small army of handwringing analysts to verify your terrible trackpad and touch screen signatures.

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    • Threeme2189@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So do these guys wring their hands while analyzing stuff or do they actually analyze handwringing?

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  • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to work at DS and there was definitely overhiring done during the early pandemic when the stock price was going up. At least three people I know were let go in this round and they were in technical teams, which was surprising.

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy shit, how many employees does DocuSign need?

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  • Shadywack@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m no fan of these layoffs, but a company like Docusign having over 7k employees is mind blowing to me. They could probably GET BY with 440 employees and then outsourcing customer service entirely.

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• Jakdracula@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why do they need that many employees?

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Spoken like a true CEO. About time for a merger riiight?

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  • crazyCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To scam corporate clients.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Our account manager just tried to wrangle us into 3x as many licenses as we needed. I looked at the numbers and there wasn’t any usage. I think they logged in to sign something over a year ago and that auto-consumed a license.

  Spent waaay too much time trying to get them to come up with the right number.

  I think their business model is to get as many people licensed as possible even if they aren’t using the product. The steps you need to go through to release a license are odd.

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  • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They wanted $30k for like 6k envelopes a year for my company. With Conga Sign, it was less than $5k for UNLIMITED. They didn’t adjust pricing with competition. They need to shrink or go extinct.

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• OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need to just filter out layoff news. All these tech layoffs really bug me. Hope we see some startups take off filled with these laid off workers.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel much less strongly about them (as in I just care less, they’re still still horrible) since I left the industry to start my own business, tbh.

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• parpol@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leases, mortgages, loans, hiring agreements. I feel like most major contracts get signed with Docusign these days. Been that way for a years now.

    There are alternative products, but they’re definitely the biggest player for digital contracts.

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    • parpol@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t stop won’t stop

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