Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block

kept by eddie feb 19

Block employees describe a deteriorating culture with ongoing rolling layoffs, mandatory generative AI use, and performance anxiety after hundreds were fired.

Layoffs at Block
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we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.####today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our
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