<story><title>Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/zynga-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Eagerly looking forward to the explanation for this weird juxtaposition.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/huUv09m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;huUv09m.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>Looks like Mattrick brought his well-tread &amp;quot;why retrain when you can swap out people&amp;quot; practices with him from EA.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; On November 9, 2009, EA announced its acquisition of social casual games developer Playfish for US$275 million. On the same day, the company announced layoffs of 1500 employees, representing 17% of its workforce, across a number of studios including EA Tiburon, Visceral Games, Mythic and EA Black Box.&lt;p&gt;I was at Tiburon when that happened. Not a fun day. :(</text></comment>
<story><title>Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/zynga-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Eagerly looking forward to the explanation for this weird juxtaposition.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/huUv09m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;huUv09m.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_random_</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a new radical management concept: you start replacing pieces of your failing company with other smaller but more successful companies. Start at the bottom, finish at the top. In two years after a series of lay-offs and acqui-hires the whole staff will be replaced finishing with CEO with a proper replacement hired from Rovio&amp;#x27;s board.</text></comment>