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Automattic gave workers a second opportunity to leave

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Automattic gave workers a second opportunity to leave
Automattic gave workers a second opportunity to leave

Automattic gave workers a second opportunity to leave, this time with a nine-month severance payment.

Automattic offered a nine-month severance payout to anyone who departed immediately on October 16, just days after 159 employees accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to departing employees. Workers were given four hours to make up their minds about accepting the offer. Mullenweg stated that those who accepted the offer would no longer have access to Automattic or WordPress.org in a Slack message that TechCrunch was able to view. This essentially means that, at least under their current ID, departing employees would not be able to contribute to the open source project. Additionally, they would be essentially barred from the WordPress community as a result. 404 Media was the first to report on the arrangement.

Mullenweg is not only the CEO of Automattic but also the owner and operator of the open-source website WordPress.org.
Mullenweg stated that those who choose to accept the offer may DM him with the message, “I resign and would like to take the 9-month buy-out offer.” He only offered four hours’ notice.
“You don’t need to provide an explanation or anything else. I’ll respond, “Thank you.” Your resignation will be accepted by Automattic, and you can keep your work laptop and office supplies. Worg and Automattic will no longer be available to you,” Mullenweg stated.
He introduced this new, brief window after remarking, “I suppose some people were sad they missed the last window.”Automattic has not responded to the story by the time it was published. It’s unclear if any workers accepted the new offer. According to the company’s website, there are currently 1,731 employees; just a few hours earlier, that number was 1,732.

The initial offer from the WordPress co-founder was directed at anyone who disagreed with him regarding Automattic’s dispute with hosting company WP Engine. Top executives at Automattic, such as Daniel Bachhuber, the head of WordPress.com (Automattic’s for-profit WordPress hosting division), Naoko Takano, the head of programs and contributor experience, Daniel Walmsley, the principal architect for AI, and Josepha Haden Chomphosy, executive director of WordPress.org, were among the first group to depart the company.

The dispute began about a month ago when Mullenweg referred to WP Engine as “a cancer to WordPress” and charged the independent company with underfunding the open source WordPress project. WordPress.org has been limiting WP Engine’s access and taking over a plug-in it had been maintaining, Automattic has accused WP Engine of trademark violations, WP Engine has filed a lawsuit, and cease-and-desist letters have all been part of the battle over the past few weeks.

According to an internal message made earlier this year by the company’s then-chief legal officer, Automattic has been getting ready to defend its trademarks by hiring “nice and not nice” lawyers, TechCrunch reported earlier this week.

The process will make the workers able to find other Jobs in the shortest period of time.

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