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Gaia Online Joins the Layoff Club

Added by gia manry on Dec. 16, 2008

9 comments

Gaia Online

According to BizJournals.com, the popular social networking site Gaia Online has laid off 16 full-time and 20 contract employees, about 13% of its total staff. This is in spite of a report by the San Jose Mercury that the company, which makes $1 million selling virtual goodies to real-life anime and game geeks-- and expects December to be a record month. It's a preemptive strike to avoid falling into the trouble other companies are already in, but still...ouch.

Gaia joins TOKYOPOP and probably a couple dozen other entertainment (although not necessarily anime/manga)-related companies in laying off this month. Happy Holidays?

Thanks to Gage for the tip!

Filed under : Gaia Online

9 Comments

Niko
on Dec. 16, 2008

It's sad for Gaia. I never could get into it, but it sucks to see layoffs.

MorpheusDreamweaver
on Dec. 16, 2008

Ya know, I'm not feeling very sad for Gaia. They're still succesful, yet they're canning 13% of their staff? Not the kind of company that's worth having any feelings over in my book.

Schwindelmagier
on Dec. 16, 2008

I used to be big into Gaia but nowadays I don't go on at all.
Too bad about the layoffs though ):

LordAndrew
on Dec. 16, 2008

How so, MorpheusDreamweaver? There are plenty of "successful" businesses that are experiencing troubles seeing layoffs.

And really, no one should be having any feelings for any company. It's the people that matter.

omo
on Dec. 16, 2008

A lot of companies are canning staff even if they're looking to do fine through the recession. Business decisions and all.

Sonata
on Dec. 16, 2008

WOW i used to be on Gaia also, I'm sad to see people lose their jobs.

GlareMaverick11987
on Dec. 17, 2008

GOOD! I've had it with Gaia Online.

Haseo
on Dec. 17, 2008

I don't really like Gaia but i always hate it when people get laid off

discostar
on Dec. 18, 2008

I Love Gaia Online. It's the only website I visit abut 600 times a day. They'll probably try to hire most of those people back in 2 years when the economy starts to swing back upwards.

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