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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 2 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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falcolas ◴[15 Jan 20 20:44 UTC] No.22058292[source]▶
70 employees, at a grossly over-estimated cost of $200,000 a year each (QA "leads" would probably cost a fraction of that), would cost Mozilla about $14M to retain. They are retaining their $43M budget for blue sky research intact (per TFA).

It feels like a better compromise could have been made.

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1. tyingq ◴[15 Jan 20 21:20 UTC] No.22058747[source]▶
200k may not be overestimated. Employees cost a lot more than their salaries. There's the employer share of payroll taxes, unemployment, health insurance subsidies, 401k matching, training, travel, etc.
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2. somebodythere ◴[15 Jan 20 22:44 UTC] No.22059648[source]▶
Not to mention office space!