GitHub is Laying Off 10% of Staff and Cutting Down Office Space

Microsoft-owned GitHub is laying off 10% of its staff. From a report: In a message to staff on Thursday, GitHub's CEO Thomas Dohmke said that due to "new budgetary realignments" the company must reduce the workforce "by up to 10% through the end of FY23." The company is also going fully remote, Dohmke wrote, telling staff they're "seeing very low utilization rates" in their offices. "We are not vacating offices immediately, but will move to close all of our offices as their leases end or as we are operationally able to do so," Dohmke wrote.

"We announced a number of difficult but necessary decisions and budgetary realignments to both protect the health of our business in the short term and grant us the capacity to invest in our long-term strategy moving forward," a GitHub spokesperson told Fortune in a written statement. The company declined to comment on whether these cuts are a part of Microsoft's layoffs that impacted 10,000 employees last month.

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Not really...

[SuperKendall]

Everyone migrated to SourceForge already after Satan bought github right?

Moving to SourceForge is a hard sell even when Satan is running GitHub.

GitHub just IS, you know?

Re: Not really...

[AutoTrix]

I mean, there is GitLab and you don't even need to pay, just self host and unlimited CI time.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

Comes down to control versus convenience. We have our own git server that's rather locked down; but our university also offers enterprise github at no cost to departments. I have several projects on the university server; but then there are things I'm comfortable putting on our own server that I'd need to think harder about if they went on the university github, even in a private repo - since arguably we don't have ultimate say over access to the latter.

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[Junta]

Thing about gitlab is it really isn't particularly hard to run. Particlularly if you are serving a small group with an instance and have a relatively simple authentication scheme.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

If we had a broader user base, I might go to the trouble of running gitlab. Since it's only for our computing group purposes, though, we just have our shared repos on a server that only accepts ssh login from members of our group.

I should talk to the guys on the Windows side, though. They might find a gui easier to use.

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[Junta]

Pretty much the GUI was the reason I bothered. Particularly to facilitate merge requests in a UI comfortable enough for everybody to participate.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

That is a good point, actually.

I'm happy living in the command line, but not everyone shares that proclivity.

7% layoffs at gitlab

[StandardDeviant]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/0... [cnbc.com]

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[drinkypoo]

Everyone migrated to SourceForge already after Satan bought github right?

You mean the site owned by the same people who turned Slashdot into a crypto-whoring, Elon-fellating shitshow? Fuck no. Sourceforge was terrible even before the latest clowns bought them. Everyone migrated to gitlab.

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[q4Fry]

Codeberg.org and/or Sourcehut.org

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[dskoll]

Codeberg and Sourcehut are both good options, and if you maintain Free Software / Open-Source Software, you can ask for an account on salsa.debian.org (which runs GitLab.)

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[real_nickname]

Damn, we forgot we had to do this, instead we bought github stickers...

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'll let you in on the secret - the tech sector is made of a microscopic handful of whiners. The truckers, linemen, firefighters, factory workers, farmers, plumbers, carpenters and every other blue collar profession you can name are all busy as hell keeping the country running. Now that the free-money ride is over, we might lose the ability for spoiled rich kids to have an app deliver food from anywhere in town to their dorm rooms. Everything else will march on.

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[Fly Swatter]

Yep, basically everyone that does actual work for living is in high demand. Keyboard heroes, not so much.

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[avandesande]

Keyboard heroes keep real workers employed by spending their money.

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[DesScorp]

Yep, basically everyone that does actual work for living is in high demand. Keyboard heroes, not so much.

All those hard-working, manually-skilled people are in high demand because newer generations don't want to do that kind of skilled but un-glamorous hard labor.... truck driving, bricklaying, plumbing, etc. They're not doing well because the economy is great... it isn't. They're busy and paid well because younger generations that should be replacing them want to be social media "influencers" instead, and basically get paid for living their lives in front of a camera because they see people like Kim Kardashian doing that.

"Dig a trench and install plumbing lines? Fuck that. I'm gonna sell pictures of my butthole on Onlyfans".

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[Powercntrl]

I'm gonna sell pictures of my butthole on Onlyfans".

Today's savvy Gen-Zers are selling NFTs of their butthole. Don't miss your chance to buy, the value is sure to go to the moon!

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[cmdr_klarg]

"Dig a trench and install plumbing lines? Fuck that. I'm gonna sell pictures of my butthole on Onlyfans".

Well... if you got it, flaunt it and make tons of cash. Since I myself would likely not get many subscribers, I'll stick to keeping computers running.

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[jobslave]

You haven't been paying attention the last few years. The tech sector over hired and over spent during covid as they crashed and panicked with the sudden changes. This is just reality forcing them to realign or die.

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[aergern]

Don't be too confused. While many folks will trumpet the reason as "overhiring" ... that's not most of the cause. Institutional investors have pressured companies to do layoffs even if they announced they did not have to do so. i.e. Google as an example. And when Google did the layoffs, those same institutional investors said it didn't go far enough. After all, Wall St. always loves layoffs and the stock price goes up. The result is those with most of the money, get even more of it.

Also, think of companies

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[edwdig]

Twitter regularly has major outages now. Basic functionality breaks often. Ad revenue is massively down, partly because of the change in direction, and partly because the advertising team is understaffed and just can't manage the accounts they have. Twitter usage is very noticeably down as tons of users have left the site.

Twitter is a masterclass in how not to run a company.

Waiting for it

[Powercntrl]

I just know there's a few /.ers scratching their heads, trying to figure out an angle to portraying a code repository as "too woke" so they can blame the layoffs on that.

Gotta blame something besides the economic downturn that totally isn't happening. How about that Chinese spy balloon? Perhaps it sent out economy-destroying rays and now there's gonna be layoffs the likes of which this country has never seen. Well played, China.

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[blackomegax]

Apple has more spare cash in the bank than most countries have entire GDP. if they did layoffs it would be a massive middle finger to their employees.

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[nightflameauto]

Anti-tech? We're anti-everything. This place is filled with bile. Even more than other discussion sites. Probably has a little to do with the way the site is operated now, and a lot to do with the fact that the world seems both intent to build all the tech, buy all the tech, worship all the tech, and to decry all the tech workers for being shit human beings that do nothing, contribute nothing, and accomplish nothing.

And maybe a little frosting of how depressing the world at large is at the moment helping th

Motives?

[zkiwi34]

Scraped enough code from the repositories that they no longer care? Embrace, extend, extinguish?