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MakerBot Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Employees

Posted by timothy on from the new-ones-being-printed dept.

Jason Koebler writes MakerBot fired roughly 20 percent of its staff Friday. Figures from 2014 placed the company's ranks at 500, meaning the cuts could equate to roughly 100 employees. The orders came from new CEO Jonathan Jaglom, Motherboard was told. Employees are apparently being led out of the company's Brooklyn office by security today. "It's about 20 percent of staff," a MakerBot representative, who asked not to be identified because she had not received approval to speak to the press, told Motherboard. "Everyone suspected that something would be coming with the new CEO, and that there would be restructuring coming."

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  1. Predictable by DumbSwede · · Score: 4, Funny

    They obviously they printed replacements

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  2. Re:Lets use correct terminology. by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 5, Funny

    keep in mind that these ex-employees could be printing firearms...

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  3. Re:Lets use correct terminology. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on, if you don't already have copies of the companies "confidential information" and/or "incriminating information/emails" then you don't deserve a job.

    I make sure anything that crosses my desk that is incriminating or embarrassing to the company gets copied to a thumb drive and a copy gets sent to my personal e-mail for later.

    They come in handy when negotiating the severance package.

  4. Re: In Other News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In capitalist America, job quits you!

  5. Re:Print a 3D job by ls671 · · Score: 3, Funny

    working on 2D jobs...

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