Indian employees fired: Recession has hit tech employees around the world. Now hundreds of Indian employees of this company have been fired.
GitHub Layoffs: Mass layoffs have been done in Microsoft’s company GitHub. The company has fired its entire Indian engineering team. According to the news of IANS, after America, GitHub’s largest engineering team was in India only. The company has decided to lay off all Indian engineers. This has affected more than 100 employees.
Bharti’s entire team was retrenched
Tech writer Gergali Oroz, who has been tracking layoffs in the tech sector for some time, said that Microsoft-owned company GitHub (GitHub Layoffs) announced the removal of its entire engineering team based in India.
Significantly, after America, the maximum number of software developers of the company were working in India. Gergali Oroz says that the company has taken this decision because the company’s team in India was small compared to the rest of the world.
What did the company say-
Talking to IANS, GitHub told that the company has taken this decision only under its ‘Reorganisation Plan’. GitHub had hinted at mass layoffs in February itself. The company says that this is a very difficult but necessary decision.
We have taken this decision to meet our needs in the short term and invest the money in the right place in the long term. It is worth noting that GitHub had announced in February itself that it is going to lay off 10 percent of its total workforce by the end of this quarter.
CEO said this
Please tell that before this retrenchment, a total of 3,000 employees were employed in the company. In an email sent to his employees, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke said that it is necessary to have the right growth to run any business. In such a situation, the company has taken this difficult decision for its growth.
Along with this, the CEO said that the company will not make any new hiring while implementing the decision of January 18. The open source developer platform GitHub has over 100 million members worldwide. It has a total of more than 10 million developers in India alone. After America, the company has the highest number of active users in India.
