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f4f3A lot of angst yesterday over a rumour site posting that LJ had laid of 20 of their 28 staff, and that they were obviously circling the drain.
A little digging around came up with figures of 17 from their LA office out of 30, and no cuts back in Russia. It looks a lot more like moving expensive support roles offshore (or, to be accurate, back onshore to Russia). I don't know if the mainframe support was outsourced when they had their servers moved to Montanna, but the financial logic of having a full scale operation on the West Coast of America must have been looking, well, less than compelling.
Of course, our New Russian Masters (whom I for one welcome) couldn't communicate anything about this until the staff involved were informed, but I'm surprised that there hasn't been any clarification today.
A little digging around came up with figures of 17 from their LA office out of 30, and no cuts back in Russia. It looks a lot more like moving expensive support roles offshore (or, to be accurate, back onshore to Russia). I don't know if the mainframe support was outsourced when they had their servers moved to Montanna, but the financial logic of having a full scale operation on the West Coast of America must have been looking, well, less than compelling.
Of course, our New Russian Masters (whom I for one welcome) couldn't communicate anything about this until the staff involved were informed, but I'm surprised that there hasn't been any clarification today.
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Date: 2009-01-07 10:29 am (UTC)There's going to be some drama from the scarred veterans of the Brad Fitzgerald Promised Us No Ads crowd, who still haven't quite managed to wrap LJ being a business activity around their brains.