After laying off almost 2,000 people, Xbox finds itself in a position at odds with the community-first image it has cultivated for itself.
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
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My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
Depends on the ratio to total employed. A team of 3000 with 2000 with nothing to do, for sure! 20,000 with 2000 as backups/currently learning the ropes? A bit more reasonable.
You don’t employ people as backups. What you do is you share knowledge across the existing people so there is no single point of failure.