A Message from Hayden Brown, Upwork CEO(upwork.com)
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A Message from Hayden Brown, Upwork CEO
https://www.upwork.com/press/releases/upwork-ceo-hayden-brown-shared-the-following-message-with-employees-on-may-7-2026
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"AI means smaller, differently resourced teams in product and engineering can make a bigger impact than ever.
Fewer layers means faster decisions. Flatter is better, and our new structure will optimize for this."
Edit: Sounds like the Coinbase post from the other day.
Old text: Sounds like the "Building for the future" Cloudflare post from the other day.
Fewer layers means faster decisions. Flatter is better, and our new structure will optimize for this."
Edit: Sounds like the Coinbase post from the other day.
Old text: Sounds like the "Building for the future" Cloudflare post from the other day.
That's old hat. CEOs have said after every layoff since 1985.
25% reduction
this seems like a pretty terrible way to do a layoff. announce on a Thursday "25% of you will be laid off" but wait until some unspecified time next week for the actual notifications?
this is going to cause a lot of unnecessary stress and anxiety among the 75% who are staying. if I was in that group, it would not boost my confidence in the company's leadership.