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Inflating the layoff percentage doesn't serve anything except to sensationalize an already editorialized headline. The number is 17%, not 28%.

by bedast 4y ago

bink 4y ago
11% were laid off in Sept.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  So is that total based on staff numbers from last year, or is the new rounds layoff percentage based on current staffing? It seems we are at the stage of layoffs were we can argue about how you measure the percentage sacked..
- bedast 4y ago
  The original headline said 6 hours ago. September wasn't 6 hours ago last I checked.
IG_Semmelweiss 4y ago
the article states they laid off 11% , less than 5 months ago. That's 26.1% Anecdata, but in several years of being a Twilio customer, I have never seen such a long outage. EDIT: fixed % of %.
- ghostpepper 4y ago
  That's only 28% if the 17% was calculated as a percentage of their pre-first-layoff headcount.
- pkulak 4y ago
  Well, it's 26%, but close enough.
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- p_j_w 4y ago
  >the article states they laid off 11% , less than 5 months ago. Unless the 11% and 17% are both talking about the original number of employees, the percentages don't simply add up like that. If it was 11% of the original number of staff then 17% of the leftovers, it'd be 26%: .11+.17*.89=0.26 Still, that's not a huge difference so I don't know why people are getting up in arms over it.
- modriano 4y ago
  If you ate 75% of a pie, then ate 75% of that remaining piece of pie, how much pie would you have left?
  - seretogis 4y ago
    I'd have a tummy ache. :(
  - manfre 4y ago
    0% of the pie would be left. If I'm that far into a pie I'm not leaving a small sliver.
- bloodyplonker22 4y ago
  Sorry, but you cannot just add percentages together. If you lay off 11% from X and then lay off 17% from what you have remaining, the total amount laid off is not 28%. It does not quite work like that.
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- bedast 4y ago
  The original headline said 6 hours ago. 5 months ago is quite a bit longer than 6 hours ago, last I checked.
  - kelnos 4y ago
    The 6 hours was referring to the length of the outage, not when the layoff was. Even the most recent layoff was 2 days ago, not 6 hours ago.
joshuanapoli 4y ago
Maybe they hired some more people between the two layoffs.

Inflating the layoff percentage doesn't serve anything except to sensationalize an already editorialized headline. The number is 17%, not 28%.

by bedast 4y ago

Inflating the layoff percentage doesn't serve anything except to sensationalize an already editorialized headline. The number is 17%, not 28%.

bink 4y ago

11% were laid off in Sept.

lostlogin 4y ago
So is that total based on staff numbers from last year, or is the new rounds layoff percentage based on current staffing? It seems we are at the stage of layoffs were we can argue about how you measure the percentage sacked..
bedast 4y ago
The original headline said 6 hours ago. September wasn't 6 hours ago last I checked.

IG_Semmelweiss 4y ago

the article states they laid off 11% , less than 5 months ago. That's 26.1% Anecdata, but in several years of being a Twilio customer, I have never seen such a long outage. EDIT: fixed % of %.

ghostpepper 4y ago
That's only 28% if the 17% was calculated as a percentage of their pre-first-layoff headcount.
pkulak 4y ago
Well, it's 26%, but close enough.
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p_j_w 4y ago
>the article states they laid off 11% , less than 5 months ago. Unless the 11% and 17% are both talking about the original number of employees, the percentages don't simply add up like that. If it was 11% of the original number of staff then 17% of the leftovers, it'd be 26%: .11+.17*.89=0.26 Still, that's not a huge difference so I don't know why people are getting up in arms over it.
modriano 4y ago
If you ate 75% of a pie, then ate 75% of that remaining piece of pie, how much pie would you have left?
- seretogis 4y ago
  I'd have a tummy ache. :(
- manfre 4y ago
  0% of the pie would be left. If I'm that far into a pie I'm not leaving a small sliver.
bloodyplonker22 4y ago
Sorry, but you cannot just add percentages together. If you lay off 11% from X and then lay off 17% from what you have remaining, the total amount laid off is not 28%. It does not quite work like that.
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bedast 4y ago
The original headline said 6 hours ago. 5 months ago is quite a bit longer than 6 hours ago, last I checked.
- kelnos 4y ago
  The 6 hours was referring to the length of the outage, not when the layoff was. Even the most recent layoff was 2 days ago, not 6 hours ago.

joshuanapoli 4y ago

Maybe they hired some more people between the two layoffs.