Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a ‘relentless onslaught of change.’
This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of employees who work on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.
Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the Mozilla Corporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies, and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt Foundation, which oversees Mozilla’s corporate governance structure and sets the browser maker’s policies.
Much of Mozilla’s work focused on advocating for privacy, inclusion, and decentralization of technologies, and ‘to create safer, more transparent online experiences for everyone,’ which ultimately benefit the browser maker and its users.
Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on October 30, the Mozilla Foundation’s executive director Nabiha Syed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — advocacy and global programs — are ‘no longer a part of our structure.’
The move, according to Syed, is in part to produce a ‘unified, powerful narrative from the Foundation,’ including revamping the foundation’s strategic communications.
‘Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting time requires laser focus — and sometimes saying goodbye to the excellent work that has gotten us this far because it won’t get us to the next peak. Lofty goals demand hard choices,’ wrote Syed.
Syed, who joined the Mozilla Foundation in February, previously served as chief executive at data journalism and investigative news site The Markup.
Updated with comment from Mozilla.
Ref: techcrunch
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