{"id":210470,"date":"2023-01-23T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=268076"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:07:39","slug":"spotify-downsizing-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/spotify-downsizing-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"More layoffs in the technology sector: Spotify will reduce its workforce this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The wave of layoffs in the technology sector continues to claim new victims. If a few days ago we talked about the economic problems that Spotify was going through, despite its success<\/a>, today it is known that the company will reduce its workforce this week, in order to carry out a cost reduction plan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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During the month of October, the company already carried out a series of layoffs, although they only affected workers from its internal podcast companies: Gimlet<\/strong> and Parcast<\/strong>. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/a>, the reduction in staff would affect more people from different departments of Spotify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The situation does not exactly catch employees off guard. Spotify’s own executive director, Daniel Ek<\/strong>, told his workers in June that the company would reduce hiring by up to 25%<\/strong> and that “would be a little more prudent with the absolute level of new hires in the coming quarters”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spotify’s own CFO, Paul Vogel<\/strong>, cited “the growing uncertainty surrounding the global economy” as a major reason for “evaluating the company’s near-term headcount growth”. In addition to this serious global context, the particular circumstances of Spotify, which is struggling to make a profit after its large investment in podcasts (with big names such as Barack Obama<\/strong> or the Kardashian<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spotify is the latest case of layoffs at a renowned technology company. Just last week, we learned that Microsoft<\/strong> carried out a downsizing<\/a> that ended up leaving 10,000 people on the streets,<\/strong> and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, carried out a similar action, which led to the dismissal of 12,000 employees<\/a><\/strong>. Other large companies such as Meta or Amazon have also reduced their workforce in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 9,800 employees worldwide<\/strong> (last quarter’s data), the amount of Spotify’s layoffs and the areas it will affect are unknown<\/strong> at the moment. Its CEO said the economic downturn has not yet had a “material impact” on the company, although he would be “more selective” with “overall spending”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spotify has announced that it will carry out a staff reduction this week, thus following the trend of other technology companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":210471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-210470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322484,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210470\/revisions\/322484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210470"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=210470"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=210470"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=210470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}