The Blue New Glenn Rocket prepares for the first launch of the Canaveral Space Force in the Canaveral Cape, Florida, USA on January 10, 2025.
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CEO Jeff Bezos“Blue Origin announced the layoffs of its “about 10%” of its employees in a comprehensive layoff on Thursday, a comprehensive adjustment designed to reduce costs and increase rocket launches.
The layoffs will affect 1,400 of the company’s nearly 14,000 employees, mainly in Florida, Texas and Washington – blue Start producing it Giant New Glen RocketsLast month, it made its long-awaited debut.
“There is no easy way to convey this.” Dave Limp The meeting was told to staff that the meeting was scheduled for the night before and lasted about 10 minutes. “No doubt we have had a lot of success over the past few months.”
“But that being said, when you look at the foundations of the company and what we need to achieve over the next three to five years, we come to a painful conclusion that we are not ready for success. We really want to have it,” said Limpo.
Limp said the decision will help Blue Origin’s new Glenn manufacturing and increase the launch pace of the rocket, two crucial goals for competing with it Elon Musk‘ SpaceX and its main Falcon 9.
To do this, companies need a culture that is “fast, flexible, decisive, and very focused on our customers”. Amazon’s Customer-centric equipment units lead the blue in the second half of 2023.
Multiple employees say Limp’s mission is to simplify many of Blue Origin’s business units (from the space station to NASA’s Lunar Landers) and push for a more focused focus on New Glenn, which gives the company a new imperative after years of development crippling. feel.
However, some employees believe morale and the company’s culture have suffered losses driven by the speed of the Liban, and two employees added that whoever survived Thursday’s layoffs, some employees are looking for jobs elsewhere.
