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THE DISPOSABLE INDEX

Tech Layoff Tracker & Corporate Hypocrisy Database (2020-2026)

Layoffs & Culture at Outbrain

Marketing

-328TOTAL DISCARDED

0.2%WORKFORCE IMPACT

REDUCED BY 0.2%

PEAK WORKFORCE (EST.)180,328

CURRENT WORKFORCE180,000

-200(2025.02)

"Post-merger restructuring"

💀 TRANSLATION: Correcting our own executive incompetence.

-90(2023.06)

"Workforce adjustment or organizational change."

-38(2022.07)

"Adjusting to macroeconomic changes"

💀 TRANSLATION: Blaming the economy because blaming our strategy would get the CEO fired.

Outbrain has eliminated a total of 328 positions across 3 workforce events.