Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.
CEO does not understand who is doing work
surely not the workers
all they do is sit in front of their desks for hours
There’s two parts to being successful at a job: successfully accomplishing the work that fits into your role, and successfully messaging to your bosses that you’re doing a good job.
So when executives lay people off, it tends to catch people who are bad at that second task (the messaging/perception side), which may or may not include people who are good at the first task (actually doing good shit for the company).
That’s why mass layoffs are damaging, and should be avoided if possible.
Once Spotify changed their entire UI to focus on engagement instead of a good UX, I switched to another service. I wish the best for those employees that were laid off, and the worst for a CEO driven by profit above all else
May I ask what service you switched to? I’m tired of my music app being cluttered with podcasts and audio books. I use other services for this things and don’t need them in Spotify.
I switched to tidal. Recently had a huge price drop to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. It’s not perfect, but it has lossless audio, and works well for my needs
Does tidal have the feature Spotify does where you can transfer what’s playing from one device to another? I use that somewhat frequently.
Yeah you can do the same thing as Spotify and change the output on the fly within the app
Does the switching really work? I’ve been eyeing Tidal since Spotify is shit at that. Too many times I get “can’t play this song” when switching from pc to mobile or vice versa. Sometimes it won’t even switch and I have to force close both, which is not possible when I’m outside and not near the pc.
Hmm, I don’t use the feature frequently, but it hasn’t failed on me. I can say that I use CarPlay frequently, and Tidal’s CarPlay implementation is a thousand times more reliable than Spotify, so when it comes to device based implementations they seem to have done a great job.
Looks like they offer a free trial, https://offer.tidal.com/ so I would say probably best to pilot it with that and see if it suites your needs
EDIT:
Testing on my app, it doesn’t seem to do what you want to do. You can select different output devices seamlessly, but you can switch between two clients the way Spotify can, sorry for the misunderstanding. Hope you find something that works for you
So he’s about to rehire all those people he laid off, right? Surely he’s not just saying this, but still expecting everyone who’s left to cover all the work he’s surprised by. Surely he knew these details before he fucked over a bunch of workers, right?
