Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce
Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce
Patreon 裁员 20%
Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce, or 93 people, CEO Jack Conte told employees on Thursday. In a memo to staff that was shared online by the company, Conte said Patreon’s core business is strong but that the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable, which is why it needs to make the “painful” but necessary cuts.
Patreon 首席执行官 Jack Conte 周四告知员工，公司将裁减 20% 的员工，即 93 人。在公司于网上公开的一份员工备忘录中，Conte 表示 Patreon 的核心业务依然稳健，但平台必须应对市场变化并调整成本结构以保持稳定，这就是为什么公司需要进行这些“痛苦”但必要的裁员。
Conte wrote that “AI has fundamentally transformed the tech industry,” and that the pace of change has “never been more intense.” However, Conte went on to note that Patreon isn’t making the cuts because it wants to replace employees with AI. “To be clear about the impact of AI on today’s decision: we are not making the above changes because we believe AI replaces humans,” he wrote. “The more we have learned to use these new tools, the clearer it has become that they are not substitutes for the creativity, judgment, detail orientation, or craftsmanship that our teammates have in spades, nor do they replace the desire for human connection that all of us cherish so deeply. That’s my personal opinion, but more importantly, it’s the foundation of Patreon’s strategy: our product vision and business are both predicated on the value of human creativity and human connection.”
Conte 写道，“人工智能已经从根本上改变了科技行业”，变革的速度“前所未有”。然而，Conte 随后指出，Patreon 进行裁员并非因为想要用人工智能取代员工。“关于人工智能对今天决策的影响，我需要明确一点：我们做出上述调整并非因为我们认为人工智能可以取代人类，”他写道。“我们越是学习使用这些新工具，就越清楚地意识到，它们无法替代我们团队成员所拥有的创造力、判断力、对细节的关注或精湛技艺，它们也无法取代我们所有人深切珍视的人际连接需求。这是我的个人观点，但更重要的是，这是 Patreon 战略的基础：我们的产品愿景和业务都建立在人类创造力和人际连接的价值之上。”
He continued, “AI has fundamentally transformed the tech industry, though, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more. That does have an impact on how we operate and organize.” Beyond the headcount reduction, Conte said Patreon is also restructuring how it operates, “flattening” its organizational chart and refocusing teams around its top priorities.
他继续说道：“不过，人工智能确实从根本上改变了科技行业，包括我们的工作方式、产品构建方式、沟通方式等等。这确实对我们的运营和组织方式产生了影响。”除了裁员之外，Conte 表示 Patreon 还在重组其运营方式，通过“扁平化”组织架构，并将团队重心重新聚焦于核心优先事项。
Affected employees will receive at least 16 weeks of severance pay, plus an additional week for every year worked, healthcare coverage through the end of the year, and a $1,500 stipend to replace their company laptop.
受影响的员工将获得至少 16 周的遣散费，外加每工作一年额外增加一周的补偿，以及持续到今年年底的医疗保险，并获得 1,500 美元的津贴以更换公司配发的笔记本电脑。
Last week, Patreon announced that it was partnering with internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare to directly block access to AI bots designed to train their AI models on creators’ work without permission. The company said it had to enhance its efforts on this front because AI scraping has become more sophisticated. The move came as online publishers and creators are grappling with AI companies using their work to train AI models.
上周，Patreon 宣布与互联网基础设施提供商 Cloudflare 合作，直接阻止那些未经许可、旨在利用创作者作品训练 AI 模型的 AI 机器人访问平台。公司表示，由于 AI 抓取技术变得越来越复杂，必须加强这方面的应对措施。此举正值在线出版商和创作者们努力应对 AI 公司利用其作品训练模型之际。
Patreon’s latest round of layoffs is the platform’s largest since it cut 17% of its staff back in 2022. During that earlier round of layoffs, Patreon also closed its offices in Berlin and Dublin.
这是 Patreon 自 2022 年裁员 17% 以来规模最大的一次裁员。在那次裁员中，Patreon 还关闭了其位于柏林和都柏林的办事处。