The far-left propaganda site Axios announced on Tuesday that it was cutting 10% of its 500-person staff.
Is it an election year?
Unsurprisingly, Axios announced these layoffs in the most callous way imaginable… instead of meeting with each person, the company sent out a company-wide email that read like one of those silly posts you often see on Axios.
Headline: Difficult Change
Subheading: We’re making some difficult changes to quickly adapt to a rapidly changing media environment.
And now we get to my favorite part…no this is not fiction…the actual “why it matters”…
Why is this important: We are eliminating approximately 50 positions in response to fundamental shifts in media, technology and reader/needs habits. …
If your role is being eliminated, you will receive an email within minutes with information about severance benefits and a calendar invite to meet with your team leader and a member of the HR team.
Who would tell such a story?
People team?
If we had to lay off 10% of our staff, the first people to be fired would be that stupid HR team.
Axios co-founder and CEO Jim VandeHei poses for a portrait at Axios headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei wrote the memo and added that he had hoped to meet individually with everyone being let go but “the way the company is structured, this proved to be impractical.”
“Today is a sad day, and we are committed to handling this difficult moment with grace, empathy and integrity,” VandeHei added. “We will treat departing colleagues with the utmost respect and provide thoughtful severance packages to help them prepare for their next opportunities.”
For most of those being laid off, this Friday will be their last day at work.
This is a strange time to lay off 10% of your staff. We’re 90 days away from a presidential election that’s not only momentous but unprecedented. We’ve already had one assassination attempt, one of the main candidates (the incumbent president) dropped out of the race, we’ve got the Olympics, a struggling economy, and escalating war in the Middle East.
This should be the best booming period in history for trusted, serious news media. Ah, you see, therein lies the problem. Axios is neither trusted nor serious. Axios is a joke and a purveyor of misinformation.
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