It's the second round of cuts for the streaming giant this year
Netflix is laying off 300 employees (around 3% of its workforce), most of whom work in the United States, Variety reported.
It’s the second round of cuts for the streaming giant after laying off 150 full-time workers, as well as dozens of part-time workers and contractors, in May.
“While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these adjustments so that our costs are growing in line with our slower revenue growth,” a company spokesperson told CNN Business on Thursday. “We are so grateful for everything they have done for Netflix and are working hard to support them through this difficult transition.”
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In April, the Los Gatos, CA-based company reported that it lost subscribers for the first time in more than a decade, which resulted in investors wiping billions of dollars off Netflix market cap. The company's stock has plummeted roughly 70% this year, according to CNN Business.
Netflix is far from the only tech firm to trim its workforce as of late. After clamoring for talent during the Great Resignation, Silicon Valley is now reducing staff in the sector to prepare for a recession. Since May, tech startups have laid off nearly 27,000 workers, according to layoffs.fyi, which tracks publicly announced job cuts. That’s roughly double the total number of layoffs recorded in all of 2021.
Netflix’s cuts come on the heels of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest bank in the United States, making massive personnel changes as a result of a downward spiral in the housing market.
The New York City-based firm is laying off hundreds of home-lending employees and reassigning hundreds more this week, Bloomberg reported. More than 1,000 employees will be affected, with about half moved to different divisions within the company.
“Our staffing decision this week was a result of cyclical changes in the mortgage market,” a JPMorgan spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday. “We were able to proactively move many impacted employees to new roles within the firm and are working to help the remaining affected employees find new employment within Chase and externally.”
JPMorgan isn’t alone – Redfin Corp. and Compass Inc. have also been laying off workers as the housing market cools. In a regulatory filing last week, Compass said that it will trim about 10% of its workforce (about 450 employees). Meanwhile, Redfin plans to cut about 6% (about 470 workers).
Coinbase – the biggest crypto exchange in the U.S. – announced last week it will lay off 18% of its workforce due to the market’s downward spiral. Laid off employees will receive a minimum of 3.5 months of severance, plus two weeks for every year of employment, according to media reports. At the dawn of 2022, Coinbase’s plan was to boost its staff by 2,000. According to its most recent earnings report, the company added 1,218 employees in the first quarter of 2022 alone, bringing its total headcount to 4,948.
It’s simply the latest crypto firm to scale back on expansion and reduce its headcount. Rain, a large crypto exchange based in the Middle East, recently laid off dozens of employees, Fortune reported. Meanwhile, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins behind the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, also announced that they’re trimming 10% of staff.
