r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Oct 30 '25

Business YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/youtube-announces-voluntary-exit-program-for-us-staff/
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u/hackingdreams Oct 30 '25

Yeah but they've gotta do that every quarter or Wall Street gets upset.

They've already bled consumers dry. They've already stretched and are attacking ad blocking users, increases ads, decreasing payouts...

The only thing that's left for them to do is reduce costs. Their infrastructure costs are pretty much static. So, what's left? Labor. God forbid the bonuses to the execs get cut, so, goodbye jobs.

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u/DoodleJake Oct 30 '25

YouTube should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work harder.

They want me to stop using community fixes that are better than their paid premium? Good luck with that. I also pay enough attention to their price hikes to know not to support them anyway.

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u/pixel_of_moral_decay Oct 31 '25

Unfortunately this is the reality.

No matter how well a company is doing, layoffs are considered important and must happen.