Automattic 是 WordPress.com、WooCommerce、Tumblr 等品牌的母公司，已开始裁员，知情人士透露，公司内部正为更多裁员做准备。
Automattic, the parent company to WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and others, has begun layoffs, and insiders tell us they are bracing for more cuts to come.
至少在过去一周里，裁员已波及其传播团队、社交团队、WordPress.com 以及其 VIP 企业业务。
Over at least the past week, the cuts have impacted its communications team, social team, WordPress.com, and its VIP enterprise business.
这些离职代表着 Automattic 面临更多动荡，其团队仍因董事会在 9 月试图罢免 CEO 马特·马伦韦格（Matt Mullenweg）未果而震荡，结果导致董事会全面换届，以及包括首席财务官、临时首席财务官和首席法务官在内的其他高管离职。
The departures represent more turmoil at Automattic, whose team is still reeling from the board’s failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg in September, resulting in a complete board turnover and other exec departures, including its CFO, interim CFO, and Chief Legal Officer.
Automattic 传播总监梅根·福克斯（Megan Fox）上周在 LinkedIn 上发文谈及自己的离职，称此举是“意外的终结”，且她的职位已被“取消”。与此同时，在《科技博客》（TechCrunch）报道 Automattic 临时首席财务官杰里米·克拉普曼（Jeremy Klaperman）本月早些时候离职、仅在董事会动荡几周后，马伦韦格在 X 上发帖暗示克拉普曼可能因公司决定寻找外部候选人填补该职位而感到“受辱”。
Automattic’s Director of Communications, Megan Fox, posted about her departure last week on LinkedIn, saying the move was an “unexpected end” and that her role had been “eliminated.”Meanwhile, after TechCrunch reported that Automattic’s interim Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Klaperman left earlier this month, only weeks after the board shakeup, Mullenweg posted on X suggesting Klaperman may have been “offended” by the company’s decision to seek external candidates to fill the role. (Internally, however, Mullenweg had asked Klaperman to reconsider leaving, we had heard.)
（据我们了解，内部曾要求克拉普曼重新考虑离职决定。）据《科技博客》查看的截图显示，马伦韦格一度在公司内部 Slack 中分享了一位近期离职高管的个人信息。该帖子涉及一项影响该人配偶的健康问题，并声称公司未为该人提供急需的 COBRA 保险。马伦韦格称该高管威胁要因此起诉。马伦韦格还透露，他的未婚妻也受到同一种健康状况的影响。一些员工告诉我们，他们对 CEO 在此类论坛分享如此私密和个人的事情感到震惊。
At one point, Mullenweg also shared personal information about one of the recently departed execs in the company’s internal Slack, according to screenshots viewed by TechCrunch. The post related to a health matter impacting the person’s spouse, and claimed that the company was not providing this person with much-needed COBRA insurance. Mullenweg said the exec was threatening to sue over this. Mullenweg also shared that his own fiancée had been impacted by the same health condition. Some employees told us they were shocked that the CEO would share something so private and personal in such a forum.
本月内，《科技博客》从不同消息源处获悉，Automattic 团队成员也已被解雇，包括 WordPress.com 的市场和产品部门人员。
Throughout this month, TechCrunch has heard from different sources that members of Automattic’s team have also been let go, including those in marketing and product at WordPress.com.
针对上周的裁员置评请求，Mullenweg 表示，解雇人数并未超过正常水平。周三被问及不断增加的裁员总数时，Mullenweg 称他今天“主要专注于 PHP 方面的事务。”（他在 X 上发帖谈及正在冲击互联网的 PHP 安全问题，这事优先级最高。）公司“关于我们”页面显示员工总数为 1,397 人，但知情人士透露，计划很可能是将裁员分散在未来几个月进行，以期在 6 月即将到来的债务重新谈判前改善 Automattic 的第四季度营收数据。
Reached for comment about the layoffs last week, Mullenweg said the terminations were not above its normal numbers. Asked on Wednesday about the growing total, Mullenweg said that today he was “mostly focused on PHP.” (He posted on X about the PHP security issue hitting the internet, which is taking priority.) The company’s About page lists the total number of staff at 1,397, but insiders tell us that the plan is likely to spread out the layoffs over the months ahead, in the hopes of improving Automattic’s Q4 revenue figures ahead of a debt renegotiation that’s coming up in June.
Automattic 发言人 Chenda Ngak 在发给 TechCrunch 的声明中说：“我们分阶段实施组织变革，以便提供更优厚的遣散费，并给每位 Automattic 员工更多时间。”
In a statement shared with TechCrunch, Automattic spokesperson Chenda Ngak said “We’re staggering our organizational changes to be more generous with severance and allow more time with each Automattician.”