GitHub lays off 10% of workforce, plans to go fully remote to cut costs
GitHub, the software development and version control service provider owned by Microsoft, announced it would be cutting 10% of its workforce and transitioning the remaining employees to remote work in order to safeguard the company’s immediate financial stability.
“We announced a number of difficult but necessary decisions and budgetary realignments to both protect the health of our business in the short term and grant us the capacity to invest in our long-term strategy moving forward,” a GitHub spokesperson said in an email statement.