OTIOSE/THE DISPOSABLE INDEX/Cameo
Tech Layoff Tracker & Corporate Hypocrisy Database (2020-2026)

Layoffs & Culture at Cameo

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THE NUMBERS

-247 EMPTOTAL DISCARDED
0.1%WORKFORCE IMPACT

THE SCALE

REDUCED BY 0.1%
PEAK WORKFORCE (EST.)180,247 EMP
CURRENT WORKFORCE180,000 EMP

HISTORY

-80 EMP(2023.07)

"Financial stumble"

🩸 LIKELY CASUALTIES (AI ESTIMATE):
  • 🔴
    Recruiting (95%) ─ Reason: Hyper-growth ended, hiring stopped.
  • 🔴
    Talent Relations/Account Management (85%) ─ Reason: Talent acquisition saturated, relationship management scaled back.
  • 🔴
    Growth Marketing (80%) ─ Reason: Customer acquisition costly, budgets trimmed.
🤡 CORPORATE BS LEVEL:
85%
-80 EMP(2022.11)

"Workforce adjustment or organizational change."

🩸 LIKELY CASUALTIES (AI ESTIMATE):
  • 🔴
    Recruiting & Talent Acquisition (90%) ─ Reason: Hiring freeze renders role obsolete.
  • 🔴
    Marketing & Growth (Non-Essential) (85%) ─ Reason: Vanity metrics, unprofitable user acquisition.
  • 🟡
    Project Management / Product Owners (75%) ─ Reason: Feature bloat, redundant project oversight.
🤷 CORPORATE BS LEVEL:N/A
-87 EMP(2022.05)

"Workforce adjustment or organizational change."

🩸 LIKELY CASUALTIES (AI ESTIMATE):
  • 🔴
    Recruiting & HR (95%) ─ Reason: Hiring spigot closed, recruiters expendable
  • 🔴
    Marketing & Growth (85%) ─ Reason: Growth-at-all-costs ends, marketing budgets slashed
  • 🟡
    Product/Program Management (75%) ─ Reason: Frivolous features cut, product roadmap shrinks
🤷 CORPORATE BS LEVEL:N/A

Cameo has eliminated a total of 247 positions across 3 workforce events.

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