Grammarly Lays Off 230 Employees (techcrunch.com) 25
Grammarly, the parent firm of eponymous writing assistant service, is laying off 230 employees worldwide as part of a "business restructuring," the company announced this week. From a report: The layoffs are part of Grammarly's efforts to advance its focus on "the AI-enabled workplace of the future," the company says. "To arrive at today's decision, we took a look at our organizational design and the current skillsets of our teams through the lens of our company strategy," Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury said in a memo to employees. "As we strengthen our focus toward driving the AI-enabled workplace and deepen our technical investments in AI, we will need a different mix of capabilities and skillsets. We also need to redesign our organization to improve the quality and speed of collaboration -- and that means, among other things, restructuring roles and co-locating certain teams." Roy-Chowdhury went on to say that the layoffs are not a cost-cutting measure, noting that Grammarly's financial position is "strong." He says the layoffs affects most Grammarly functions and geographies.
I had was expecting it... (Score:5, Funny)
Who need grammar?
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I tried their application and found myself getting annoyed with it. Sometimes, their suggestions felt more like they were trying to change my grammar style to sound more like what they think is ideal. There really isn't anything wrong with how I was saying it, they just wanted to change it for change's sake.
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I imagine it's like using lint [wikipedia.org] and you have to either ignore a certain percentage of the pedantic things it reports or spend most of your day trying to make it happy.
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I was going to say it is clear their offering isn't working based on what I hear/read every day.
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nore spailling
Good. (Score:2)
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*they're
U could use sum grammer lessons asswhole.
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Are you trying to be ironic or are you drunk?
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If I were mean I'd say you can't fix dumb, but we just need to fix our schools.
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Heaven forbid anyone gets training (Score:2)
"To arrive at today's decision, we took a look at our organizational design and the current skillsets of our teams through the lens of our company strategy," Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury said in a memo to employees. "As we strengthen our focus toward driving the AI-enabled workplace and deepen our technical investments in AI, we will need a different mix of capabilities and skillsets.
While you aren't likely to train data scientists in house, that is a small percentage of the roles you need to focus more on AI technologies. Most of your engineers, analysts, and certainly your sales, marketing, etc. employees can be trained to learn the necessary skills for such a shift.
It makes even more sense to train in-house because everyone is looking for employees with AI-skills in the marketplace. The cost of acquiring them isn't going to be much different than the cost to train employees you alrea
Companies stopped training (Score:2)
Much as I hate to both sides this is something both parties fail at. The GOP is all in on corporations and the Dems are too scared of being called racist to take action.
I still side with the Dems though because they're at least pro-Union and Unions can form voting blocks to shut down unnecessary immigration.
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I am going to say ONE good thing about 45. One.
When he put the cork in the H-1B program, it created a demand for US labor, and created the best economy in US history, because Americans were working. Not blokes fresh off the boat chosen because they are cheap and willing to be a slave for a company or face deportation.
Biden turned around and opened the floodgates, removing all H-1B restrictions... and you wonder why companies are firing US workers and going with the slaves again.
Nothing against the H-1B wo
Remember (Score:2)
AI won't take your jobs, pinky promise!
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Re:AI won't take yr jobs, pinky promise (Score:1)
You might lose your original job, but you get a new one in wayward-bot-damage-control-PR.
correction: (Score:2)
Translation (Score:2)
"To arrive at today's decision, we took a look at our organizational design and the current skillsets of our teams through the lens of our company strategy," Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury said in a memo to employees. "As we strengthen our focus toward driving the AI-enabled workplace and deepen our technical investments in AI, we will need a different mix of capabilities and skillsets. We also need to redesign our organization to improve the quality and speed of collaboration -- and that means, among other things, restructuring roles and co-locating certain teams."
Buzzword buzzword, buzzword ... (hopefully) trendy thing buzzword ...
Roy-Chowdhury went on to say that the layoffs are not a cost-cutting measure, noting that Grammarly's financial position is "strong."
Limited value (Score:2)
Grammerly frequently makes errors. It is a very poor grammar checker. The best grammar checker I've ever used was Grammatik, but that's ancient software these days, not even sure it's still sold.
Grammerly also supports a very limited range of formats. It's no use to me as I use LaTeX extensively and it can't cope with that.
I tried a subscription for Grammerly, but it was temperamental, didn't handle UK English well (it assumed everything was American, even after configuring it), and as noted earlier, it mad
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Well, I can't imagine paying a subscription for grammar checking - after all, Word has grammar checking built in.
Grammatik was acquired and incorporated into WordPerfect, so I imagine it's still in there as the grammar checker.
Meaning (Score:2)
Like other IT-driven businesses we will stop predatory competition for resources, we are repurposing to; enshittify, reduce product mix and reduce R&D: So we will need fewer employees. Thank-you for your co-operation, particularly, when I give myself a bonus.