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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 1 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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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dangwu ◴[15 Jan 20 20:50 UTC] No.22058376[source]▶
Cost per employee can be much higher than their compensation. Maybe around 25% higher.
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1. Yoric ◴[15 Jan 20 21:57 UTC] No.22059196[source]▶
It can actually be 100% higher in some countries.