The company behind #Wordpress, #Automattic, is getting increasingly aligned.

The employee base now consist of "Mullenweg’s strongest supporters, and people who couldn’t afford to risk leaving their jobs", neither of which will contradict #Mullenweg.

Apparently recently, Automattic has been adding watermarking to the background in internal communications systems. The result will be that those afraid of leaving will be even more compliant. What a work culture.
https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/

Automattic Transparency Report 2024

covering government requests, DMCA copyright takedown requests, GDPR, and more, to WordPress.com and Tumblr for the period July-December 2024.

https://transparency.automattic.com/2025/04/14/transparency-report-update-july-december-2024/

Full report:
https://transparency.automattic.com/

"I know that losing your job was hard," my 8-year-old said to me this evening, "So you can borrow this." He handed me his newest soft toy.

"It'll help you feel better when you're sad. Keep him for the week."

#note #work #automattic #job #employment #cute #children #parenting

Via: https://danq.me/2025/04/08/26282/

Gen Z Leading Tumblr Revival #tumblr #automattic #socialmedia https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/gen-z-tumblr-revival?utm_medium=feed

Storföretagens entré

https://fedinyheter.nyhetskartan.se/storforetagens-entre/

I'm off for a week of full-time volunteering with Three Rings at 3Camp, our annual volunteer hack week: bringing together our distributed team for some intensive in-person time, working to make life better for charities around the world.

And if there's one good thing to come out of me being suddenly and unexpectedly laid-off two days ago, it's that I've got a shiny new laptop to do my voluntary work on (Automattic have said that I can keep it).

#note #threeRings #volunteering #laptop #computers #work #automattic #employment #devcamp #hackathon

Via: https://danq.me/2025/04/04/3camp-2025/

Automattic's Big Bet: Layoffs Amid Growth Signal a Shift in Strategy https://tinyurl.com/mr2a33dy

WP Engine should offer free #WordPress hosting for a year to people laid off by #automattic yesterday, since they're no longer getting free hosting from .com.

The biggest surprise to me about the current #Automattic layoffs isn't the scale of it or that they're discriminating against those that were older than 40 — it's that there was a QA team.

Automattic Trims Workforce amid Legal Storm, Strategic Shift toward Paid Services

#WordPress #Automattic #OpenSource #MattMullenweg #WebDev #WPCommunity #WooCommerce #CMSnews #TechLayoffs

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/03/automattic-trims-workforce-amid-legal-storm-strategic-shift-toward-paid-services-xcxwbn/

#WordPress #Automattic #layoffs

'Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals.'

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/

Company behind WordPress just fired a lot of people:

“Automattic declined to confirm this number but we’re hearing the exact number was 281.”

“The layoffs include some longtime employees who have been with the company for north of a decade, we understand.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/

Today's my last day at #automattic

I was there for four years, but I've know some of the folks there for longer than this. Visit a WordCamp, and you'll realize that WP is a village soon enough. Bittersweet feelings r/n, as this layoff seemed a bit random.

TBH, I'm annoyed that my team will have to deal with extra work. They deserve better, but will get through this for sure.

I'm going to take a short break from this, figure out what's next while sipping a mezcal or something.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/

Restructuring Announcement

https://automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement/

Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.

Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?

CV at: https://danq.me/cv/index.html

#note #work #automattic #job #memorable #employment

Via: https://danq.me/2025/04/02/redundant/

Blogtastisch - 2. Blogs und das Fediverse

https://clip.place/w/7fCHrsXWiEWzXP2eSyQohp

Search Engine Journal: Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027. “A leaked WordPress Slack chat shows that Matt Mullenweg is considering limiting future WordPress releases to just one per year from now through 2027 and insists that the only way to get Automattic to contribute more is to pressure WP Engine to drop their lawsuit. One WordPress developer who read that message […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/14/search-engine-journal-mullenweg-considers-delaying-wordpress-releases-through-2027/

Recent experience: #Automattic: refuses to remove #disinformation and fails to remove copyright violations despite DMCA reports. #Google: refuses to remove disinformation but claims it will disable or remove copyright infringements ‘soon’ (as of March 6) but has failed to do so to date.
I guess they only help big companies āe.