{"id":1047437,"date":"2026-11-06T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047437"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:51:40","slug":"canva-layoffs-ceo-melanie-perkins-calls-job-cuts-hardest-moment-in-companys-history-says-deeply-sorry-read-full-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/canva-layoffs-ceo-melanie-perkins-calls-job-cuts-hardest-moment-in-companys-history-says-deeply-sorry-read-full-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Canva layoffs: CEO Melanie Perkins calls job cuts \u2018hardest moment\u2019 in company&#8217;s history, says \u2018deeply sorry\u2019. Read full letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian graphic design platform Canva Group is slashing 1,271 jobs, or about 22% of its workforce, as part of a major restructuring exercise. The move comes after the company recorded a slowdown in growth for the first time in a decade. As part of the restructuring, Canva plans to merge its Product, Growth and Platform teams into a single Product Organisation. The company said the move is aimed at reducing handovers, establishing clearer ownership and giving teams greater autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian graphic design platform Canva Group is slashing 1,271 jobs, or about 22% of its workforce, as part of a major restructuring exercise. The move comes after the company recorded a slowdown in growth for the first time in a decade. As part of the restructuring, Canva plans to merge its Product, Growth and Platform teams into a single Product Organisation. The company said the move is aimed at reducing handovers, establishing clearer ownership and giving teams greater autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047461,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047437\/revisions\/1047461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}