Red Hat is joining the list of companies laying off employees, with plans to let hundreds🍎 of workers go.

According to , Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks informed employees the company is planning to cut hundreds of jobs. Red Hat’s parent IBM recently engaged in its own round of layoffs, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:letting some 3,900 employees go, although WRAL News says CEO Arvind Krish🌃na indicated the number has climbed to 5,000.

There’s no indication of the specific number of Red Hat employees being laid off, other than it being in the hundreds, or just under 4%.

“We will reduce the associate base of Red Hat over the next few weeks,” Hicks wrote in the email. He said the number would be “just under 4✱% in total.”

There are some divisions tha💎t will not be impa💙cted, according to Hicks.

“We will not reduce roles directly ꩵselling to ꩵcustomers or building our products,” Hicks wrote.

“Notificaওtions will begin today in some countries, and ℱthe process will continue through the end of Q2,” he added.

Like many other CEOs before him, Hicks says the layoffs are necessary to help secure the company’s future.

“At the c꧅ore of this decision is the need to rebalance where we are investing to enable Red Hat’s future,” he said.