Tech Publisher O'Reilly Slashes Jobs

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 19, 2009 @04:41PM from the more-with-less dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, geeky tech publisher O'Reilly Media has slashed 14% of its workforce, or 31 people. Founder and tech pundit Tim O'Reilly comments on the layoffs by exhorting people to 'get more with less.' According to the article, 'Just this week... both tech giant Google and book retailer Barnes & Noble announced their first layoffs ever. Other publishing houses, including HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Random House, and Simon & Schuster have frozen salaries or cut jobs, or both.'"

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Tim O'RLY? by Big_Monkey_Bird · 2009-01-19 16:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Any more cutbacks, and they'll fire the Garamond typeface.
Re:Why? by Fluffeh · 2009-01-19 18:09 · Score: 5, Funny

This economy has been going on for over a year and half.

I think the economy has been going on for longer than that.

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Re:A lot of 'glitches'. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-19 18:42 · Score: 1, Funny

I've breathed manually ever since I was born. I imagined everyone else did so, too, until I read your post. I can breath without thinking now. Thanks!