This is the second time this year that Mozilla, which is also responsible for the development of the Firefox browser, is downsizing. This time, the downsizing affects the company’s non-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation, the foundation’s head of communications, Brandon Borrman, confirmed to TechChrunch.
The downsizing affects around 30% of the staff, which means only a few dozen employees considering the size of the foundation’s collective, but at the same time, it can be a serious blow to the face for Firefox, which once saw better days on the browser market, that the foundation significantly thins out the person responsible for advocacy and global programs teams.
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This is Mozilla’s second change in organizational structure and size this year. In February, roughly 60 employees had to leave the parent company, Mozilla Corporation – mainly teams and specialists who did not work on Firefox, which was considered a key product, left.
In the downsizing in February, they mostly turned their backs on the expansion strategy of the previous years, as a result of which, among other things, the portfolio was expanded with a VPN service and even a 3D virtual world.
In recent years, Mozilla has received serious criticism from the community due to the transformation of its product strategy, which the management then justified by saying that the company must grow more legs in addition to Firefox in order to survive in the long term.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
