Mozilla is reducing costs and letting go of employees in response to a shifting market.
Mozilla, which develops the Firefox browser, is reportedly laying off 60 employees as the company plans to cut back on investments in several products.
Mozilla said in a memo that it will focus on bringing “trusted AI to Firefox” and will bring together the Pocket, Content and AI/ML teams that support content with the Firefox organization, TechCrunch reported.
“Due to MozProd’s headcount reduction and staffing budget reductions, some roles have been consolidated into Human Resources and other support services organizations in order to provide the right level of support for our product portfolio,” the company said. memo to employees.
Mozilla is also shutting down Hubs, a 3D virtual world it launched in 2018, and reducing its investment in its mozilla.social Mastodon instance.
“The actions we’re taking will make this a strategic fix, working through a much smaller team to participate in the Mastodon ecosystem and more quickly bring smaller experiments to people who want to live on a mozilla.social instance,” the company added.
The company is reducing investments in market segments where “competitors are penetrating and it is challenging to offer a different offering”.
There will be no changes to law/policy, finance and business, marketing or strategy and operations, it said.
