{"id":4022,"date":"2014-02-04T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/04\/topspin-cuts-staff-44\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T06:22:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T06:22:07","slug":"topspin-cuts-staff-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/02\/04\/topspin-cuts-staff-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Topspin Cuts Staff 44%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e201a3fcaf0b03970b-800wi\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"146\" \/><br \/>Topspin has now confirmed that cut\u00a014  employees, or about 44% of staff. \u00a0While the company declined  further comment, the move is being described by some as redirecting the  company back to it&#8217;s original mission.  <!--more-->  &#8220;They&#8217;re focusing on their  platform, their technology and their data,&#8221; former Topspin executive  Gary\u00a0Brotman told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/articles\/news\/digital-and-mobile\/5892793\/topspin-layoffs-signal-strategy-shift\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>. &#8220;That was the idea from the beginning, and going back to that makes sense because it&#8217;s Topspin&#8217;s strong suit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<\/p>\n<p>THE ORIGINAL STORY: There were major staff layoffs  on Wednesday at direct to fan platform Topspin Media. We have been able  to confirm that Jessica Savage in the artist relations team and Head of  Operations Brad Barrish, with Topspin since 2009, were among those let  go today. \u00a0But a variety of reports point to much deeper cuts<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topspin has now confirmed that cut\u00a014 employees, or about 44% of staff. \u00a0While the company&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}