Patreon lays off 80 employees and closes office in Berlin

Amid the global economic crisis, Patreon has decided to relocate its operations to be more focused on the US.

The content creator focused company has laid off 80 employees, or around 17% of its staff, it has also closed an office in Berlin which had sales and marketing employees.

These layoffs affected members in the marketing, operations, finance, and people teams, the company has also offered 9 engineers a chance to move to the US if they want to continue working in their positions.

Patreon hasn't completely left the laid off employees in the dust though, as Patreon's CEO Jack Conte wrote a letter to them offering the affected workers at least 3 months of severance, workers in the US will also get COBRA healthcare coverage until the end of this year, The company will also offer resources to help them find a new job.