Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
by Zack Whittaker, November 5, 2024
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/
"The 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."
When reached by TechCrunch, Mozilla Foundation's communications
chief Brandon Borrman confirmed the layoffs in an email.
"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all. That unfortunately means
ending some of the work we have historically pursued and
eliminating associated roles to bring more focus going forward,"
read the statement shared with TechCrunch.
According to its annual tax filings, the Mozilla Foundation
reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year. The number
of employees at the time of the layoffs was closer to 120 people,
according to a person with knowledge. When asked by TechCrunch,
Mozilla's spokesperson did not dispute the figure.
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." ...
Seen at OSnews:
https://www.osnews.com/story/141100/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-of-its-employees-ends-advocacy-for-open-web-privacy-and-more/
"This means Mozilla will no longer be advocating for an open web,
privacy, and related ideals, which fits right in with the
organisation's steady decline into an ad-driven effort that also
happens to be making a web browser used by, I'm sorry to say,
effectively nobody. I just don't know how many more signs people
need to see before realising that the future of Firefox is very
much at stake, and that we're probably only a few years away from
losing the only non-big tech browser out there. This should be a
much bigger concern than it seems to be to especially the Linux and
BSD world, who rely heavily on Firefox, without a valid alternative
to shift to once the browser's no longer compatible with the
various open source requirements enforced by Linux distributions
and the BSDs." ...
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