Adobe Reportedly Laying Off Up to 15% of Its Staff

By Leena Rao

We’ve heard multiple reports that layoffs are taking place at Adobe (ADBE) Tuesday. One source reports that Adobe is laying off 15 percent of its staff, but this is unconfirmed. There are also Tweets about the layoffs on Twitter. Last December, Adobe laid off 600 workers (or 8 percent of its staff) due to the recession.

It’s unclear the reason for this round of layoffs but Adobe just closed the Omniture deal and layoffs could be taking place as the company streamlines the business. We’ve contacted Adobe for confirmation.

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[Tom B:]

Well, Adobe is a company that became essentially irrelevant years ago, and we ARE in the middle of the Mother of All Recessions. Adobe has approximately ONE or TWO products with any inherent worth (correct me if I'm wrong)-- they have Photoshop and InDesign (for web design). Both products are vulnerable; they do not have insurmountable "moats".

They used to be a very important company, but they got lazy. Adobe Reader is a slow, buggy, JOKE compared to Preview. Adobe Premiere was out-classed by Final Cut pro. Flash is a horrible, CPU-sucking, crash prone annoyance, which will gradually disappear from the web as HTML5 comes into increasing use.

They were a GREAT company at one time; they brought about Postscript and modern computer typography. But, those days are LONG gone.

Nov 11 08:51 AM