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Website building and hosting platform Webflow is the latest victim ofArtificial Intelligencethat has wreaked havoc onCalifornia’s tech industry— revealing Wednesday that many of its staff will be laid off.
CEO Linda Tong said the company is at an “inflection point” and had to make the “difficult decision to restructure,” adding “many” of the workers will be canned.
“The way businesses build for the web is changing fast,” Tong said. “AI is rewriting the rulesfor how marketing teams create, test, and optimize digital experiences. And the companies that move decisively through moments like this are the ones that come out ahead.”
Webflow spokesperson Paul Chalker declined to say the exact number of employees that will be impacted, but the company employees between 500 and 1,000 people, according to its LinkedIn.
“We’re moving to smaller, more focused teams that can move faster and drive impact for our customers,” Tong said. “We’re moving to a simpler structure, with leaders who stay closer to the work.”
This is the second time the company has slashed its workforce, back in 2024 8% of employees lost their jobs according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
A Webflow software engineer who spoke to the outlet on the condition of anonymity described the latest layoffs as a “bloodbath,” and believes more people will be without work this time around.
The former worker detailed the timeline of events to the outlet, saying he woke up around 7:30am to a series of concerning text messages from colleagues and about an hour and a half later received an email informing him that his employment had been terminated.
“C-suite thinks that I’m beingreplaced by AI, but they don’t actually understand what AI is doing,” the former Webflow developer told the paper.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
