Discord cuts 17% of employees to ‘sharpen its focus’

Discord today joined the list of companies laying off employees in 2024, which includes likes of Unity and Amazon. The company announced in a memo to employees that it is laying off 17% of its staff, or about 170 people, across several departments. According to CEO Jason Citron, who wrote the memo, this is part of Discord’s efforts to improve its efficiency.

Citron writes in the memo (which The Verge published): “We grew quickly and expanded our workforce even faster, increasing by 5x since 2020. As a result, we took on more projects and became less efficient in how we operated. Today, we are increasingly clear on the need to sharpen our focus and improve the way we work together to bring more agility to our organization. This is what largely drove the decision to reduce the size of our workforce.”