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Squarespace Redesigns Its Organization and Removes 19% of the People
· New York time
Website builder Squarespace says it is laying off 19% of its employees as part of a broader restructuring. The company framed the job losses as an organizational change, a description that makes a major reduction in staff sound considerably tidier than its effects on the people leaving. The announcement concerns nearly one in five employees. For affected workers, an abstract restructuring means a lost job; for the teams that remain, it means work and responsibilities must be reorganized. Customers will continue to rely on the company's website-building products while the business changes its internal structure. The reported announcement does not establish that AI caused the cuts. What it does establish is a large change at a company whose business is helping other people arrange their online presence. Squarespace offers customers tools to revise a page. Its own organizational redesign has a much higher price for the people removed from the layout.
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