I was laid off last week. Officially, I was impacted by “significant restructuring”. I never expected to become so conversant with corporate lingo. It's one of the lesser skills I acquired during my 8 years at Mozilla, mostly after Firefox OS was announced as a priority. Another lesson: companies change.

Driven by COVID-19 and the resulting economic downturn, the layoffs affected fully 25% of all employees, including long-time teammates and friends. As in the previous round of layoffs, some of the people affected were among the most passionate and talented people I have ever known. It's unfortunate that they could not all be retained.