{"id":101206,"date":"2019-10-03T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/351642"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:33:00","slug":"discord-makes-layoffs-due-to-active-shift-in-talent-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/03\/discord-makes-layoffs-due-to-active-shift-in-talent-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord makes layoffs due to &#8216;active shift in talent needs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> Discord has made an unknown number of layoffs within its marketing department, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2019-10-03-discord-confirms-layoffs\">according to a statement sent to&nbsp;GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No concrete reason was given for the cuts, with the company simply explaining it has made an &#8220;active shift&#8221; in its talent needs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday we made an active shift in the talent needs of our marketing department to better serve our growing business and future ambitions,&#8221; explained the company. &#8220;As part of this, some difficult personnel decisions had to be made to meet these goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes a few weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/350729\/Discord_cuts_games_from_paid_subscription_plan_after_Nitro_Games_fails_to_take_off.php\">Discord announced it would be cutting free games<\/a> from its Nitro premium subscription plan, because users simply weren&#8217;t playing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Discord has made an unknown number of layoffs within its marketing department, according to a statement sent to&nbsp;GamesIndustry.biz.&nbsp; No concrete reason was given for the cuts, with the company simply explaining it has made an &#8220;active shift&#8221; in its talent needs.&nbsp; &#8220;Yesterday we made an active shift in the talent needs of our marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}