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Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs (www.bbc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] hunter2@sh.itjust.works 85 points 11 months ago (18 children)

Anyone knows why Spotify needed 9000 employees in the first place?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Trying to come up with rough IT numbers and I don't think I could break 500 (depends on how much they self-host and not considering contractors). Even if I bump it up to 4500 it seems insane for a large "digital distribution" company to have 50% of its workforce to be non-IT.

[–] hunter2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

That is what I was thinking, too. Maybe it's really just marketing, hand curated content like someone commented or something else non technical.

I saw banks being maintained by 10-20 people.

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