{"id":65980,"date":"2015-12-02T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=65980"},"modified":"2015-12-02T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T06:12:53","slug":"hootsuite-global-reorganization","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/hootsuite-global-reorganization","title":{"rendered":"Hootsuite Lays Off 20 Employees as Part of &#8216;Global Reorganization,&#8217; Continues Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/735\/23365035882_256530fb58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"199\" \/>Hootsuite this week laid off 20 employees in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>But the social media platform says it&#8217;s still growing fast, planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/company-directory\/hootsuite\" target=\"_blank\">hire<\/a> more than 100 people in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/blogra\/588331\/hootsuite-laying-workers-today\" target=\"_blank\">layoffs<\/a> was not downsizing, Hootsuite says, but rather restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hootsuite has completed a global reorganization to create a simpler, more aligned business that is purpose-built to support our over 10 million customers, and scale to a multi-billion dollar enterprise,&#8221;&nbsp;the company&#8217;s corporate communications manager, Sandy Pell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/life\/588386\/hootsuite-reorganization-results-20-layoffs-vancouver\" target=\"_blank\">told the Georgia Straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this reorganization, we have merged some business units and cut others, which unfortunately meant we had to transition around 20 Vancouver employees out of the business,&#8221; Pell added. &#8220;With this organizational change, our recent leadership additions and our continued focus on social innovation, Hootsuite is well positioned for success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hootsuite this week laid off 20 employees in Vancouver. But the social media platform says it&#8217;s still growing fast, planning to hire more than 100 people in 2016. The reason for the layoffs was not downsizing, Hootsuite says, but rather restructuring. &#8220;Hootsuite has completed a global reorganization to create a simpler, more aligned business that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":65982,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-65980","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/65980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/65980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65980"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=65980"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=65980"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=65980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}