Not "Atlassian laid off 1,600 people, 10% of its workforce"

But rather: "Atlassian leadership, with 300,000+ paying customers & ~5.2 billion USD in revenue & 6+ billion USD in assets in 2025, failed to line up their financial projections with their own staffing projections, and acted to place the burden of this gap on their direct reports rather than leadership, executive compensation packages, assets, or shareholders"

Layoffs should be personally mortifying. Boards should change.

For shame.

@gnomon I'd rather say their 'cloud only' push backfired pretty heavily (rather unsurprisingly to me).

How many paying customers did they loose that way? 10%, 20%? And those were the on-prem customers which paid lots of money. That's some big numbers!

@struberg @gnomon it's so bad, even we are migrating away from their shit, and we got it for free on a nonprofit license 😂