The Mozilla Foundation has significantly reduced its team size. According to an internal email sent by Nabiha Saeed, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, the 30% layoffs will result in the nonprofit’s advocacy and global programs departments being completely eliminated. TechCrunch reported the news, and Mozilla also confirmed the cuts in a statement to the publication.
“The Mozilla Foundation is realigning our team to increase our agility and impact as we accelerate our efforts to ensure a more open and fair technological future for all of us,” the statement read. is written. “Unfortunately, this means that we will be ending some of the work we have pursued to date and eliminating related roles in order to focus more on the future.” We will update if there are any additional comments.
The Mozilla Foundation is the nonprofit arm of the larger Mozilla umbrella. Mozilla Corporation is the division responsible for the Firefox browser. Mozilla announced in February that it would lay off about 60 employees, mainly from its product development team.
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