Thread:Mira Laime/@comment-37919779-20190115184228/@comment-26339491-20190116183110

The people who were let go did absolutely nothing wrong, on the contrary. They were great colleagues.

This happened for two reasons. One, anytime two companies come together there will be areas of overlap, so various company positions in those overlapping areas were eliminated.

Two, it’s the culmination of strategy work that we’ve done since the summer. In particular, how can we create a better community experience? We know we haven’t lived up to that promise for some time now and we think that by shifting our strategy and how we support communities, we can do better in that area.

It’s understandable if letting community people go seems contradictory toward being more community-oriented, but it’s exactly the opposite. No organization should assume that just because something was done one way for a long time it means that’s the right way to do things.

Refocusing on the community means re-strategizing on how to best accomplish that, so this is a commitment to really look at what works, what doesn’t, and what our new combined team needs in order to build a stronger community support experience.