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Canva Redesigns Its Workforce, and the Template Has Real People in It
· New York time
Canva is cutting or relocating more than 1,200 jobs in a restructuring affecting 22 percent of its global workforce. Chief executive Melanie Perkins described the job cuts in an email to staff as the hardest moment in the company's thirteen-year history. The Australian-founded design platform built its business around making polished layouts accessible to people without specialist design skills. Its restructuring comes as software companies face competition from cheaper AI products while embracing the technology themselves. For workers affected by the changes, the consequences are more concrete than a shift in product strategy: roles are being cut or moved. The distinction between cuts and relocations matters because the announcement covers both. The total describes the scale of the restructuring, not a claim that all 1,200 positions have been eliminated. What is clear is that a substantial share of the global workforce is caught up in the redesign. Canva's familiar promise is that a difficult composition can become easier with the right tools. An organization chart is a less forgiving canvas. Moving boxes may make the new layout look clean on a screen, but each box represents a person who must live with the result. The drag-and-drop interface is much less charming when the object being dragged is a job.
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