GitHub lays off 10% of its workforce and goes 100% to teleworking

Another company from the technology sector joins the layoffs trend plaguing many large companies in the last weeks. Is about GitHubthe Git repository hosting company will terminate the contract of 3,000 employees or, what is the same, 10% of its workforce.

In addition, its work model for the employees that remain in the company will become 100% online as soon as the rents of the offices in which some activity is still carried out are finished. Therefore, GitHub will become a company or division that will work entirely through remote work.

Other announced adjustments are renewing employee teams every 4 years instead of every 3 years, and moving to the use of the Microsoft Teams platform.

The reason for this change is to adjust expenses, both due to layoffs and the underutilization that they were making of their offices after the coronavirus pandemic, and moving a large part of their workforce to teleworking.

Although GitHub is owned by Microsoftits operation had remained independent to some extent, so it is to be expected that these layoffs will add to the 10,000 announced by those in Redmond recently.

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