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CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block (www.sfgate.com)
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CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block::Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block and founder of Twitter, reportedly told workers it will now be easier and quicker to fire them.

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They have 12.000 employees. Like yes they do have a couple of recognizable products - mostly Square and Tidal.

But still, 12.000 people is a lot. One more case of overhiring for imaginary growth.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did Block acquire Square?

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

According to the wiki, they started it as their original product. And later acquired Tidal, and some other services I'm not familiar with (Afterpay, Cashapp, Weebly)

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

No, Block was square. It's the first damn sentence.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Afterpay is an installment payment plan for online purchases, cash app is a direct payment app like Venmo/Paypal, and Weebly is a website builder.

[–] nick@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

No. Square was first, created cash (or cash app), and bought a bunch of other dumb shit. Eventually cash decided it wanted to be its own company and did their own shit, and jack allowed it because he’s a fucking idiot moron.

I worked there for a decade. Quit in 2020