GitHub will dismiss 10% of employees, and the office will be closed in anticipation of a complete remote system

Large-scale layoffs by major IT companies such as Google , Amazon , Microsoft , and Meta continue. It was reported that GitHub, an online version control service under Microsoft, will dismiss 10% of its employees.

GitHub laying off 10% of its staff, going fully remote | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-staff-and-cutting-down-office-space/

GitHub lays off 10% and goes fully remote | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/09/github-lays-off-10-and-goes-fully-remote/

According to foreign news media Fortune, GitHub CEO Thomas Domke sent an email to all employees on February 9, 2023, stating, ``With the new budget reorganization, GitHub will reach its maximum capacity by the end of fiscal 2023. We have to reduce the number of employees by 10%,' he said.

In addition, CEO Domke revealed that GitHub's full remote system has resulted in a very low utilization rate of the office, saying, ``I will not surrender the office soon, but the lease contract will end. We are moving in the direction of closing all offices as soon as it becomes operationally possible.'

In addition, CEO Domke announced that ``the update of notebook PCs provided to employees will be changed from 3 years to 4 years'' in order to reduce operating costs, and ``Hubber, who has grown GitHub so far. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you (employees) and their incredible talent.It is because of your commitment and the accumulation of your daily work that GitHub has grown into the largest and most important software development platform.' Did.

GitHub's parent company, Microsoft, also announced in January 2023 that it would dismiss 10,000 people, about 5% of all employees. Fortune asked GitHub if GitHub's job cuts were part of a large-scale layoff by Microsoft, but a GitHub spokesperson declined to comment.

Microsoft decided to dismiss 10,000 people, the second largest personnel reduction in history with a restructuring cost of 154 billion yen - GIGAZINE

A GitHub spokesperson said, 'We have announced some hard and necessary decisions and budget realignments to prioritize the health of our business in the near term and maintain the capacity to invest in our long-term strategy.' I'm here.

GitLab, the same online version control service as GitHub, also announced on February 9, 2023 that it will dismiss 7% of all employees by March 2023. GitLab CEO Sid Sidjibrandi explained that the background to the large-scale layoffs was that companies showed a conservative attitude toward software investment during the global recession. I'm here.

GitLab to dismiss 7% of employees - GIGAZINE

Former GitHub and GitLab employee Zach Holman posted a tweet sympathizing with GitHub and GitLab employees.

Much love to those hits by the GitHub and GitLab layoffs this morning.

— Zach Holman (@holman) February 9, 2023