{"id":674362,"date":"2026-11-04T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674362\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:40:12","slug":"aussie-adobe-assailant-canva-announces-layoffs-in-re-org-affecting-22-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674362\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Adobe assailant Canva announces layoffs in re-org affecting 22% of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n No mention of AI, but a nod to the pace of technological change\n <\/p>\n

Australian design software maker Canva is restructuring, with 1,271 employees, or 22 percent of its workforce, facing layoffs, changes to their roles, or requests to relocate.<\/p>\n

The company, which has become a challenger to Adobe, announced the news by\u00a0sharing<\/a>\u00a0a message that CEO Melanie Perkins sent to staff on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

That missive, titled\u00a0\u201cAn important update on our team,\u201d doesn\u2019t mention AI but does state \u201cNew technology is transforming what people can create, how they create it, and what they expect from the products they use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perkins observed that Canva\u2019s rate of growth recently slowed for the first time in a decade and shared her view that continued success won\u2019t happen without change.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter exploring a wide range of alternatives, I’ve come to the difficult conclusion that small changes won\u2019t be enough,\u201d she wrote. \u201cTo set ourselves up for the next decade, we need to refound Canva, getting back to our roots of small, empowered teams with the freedom to make decisions, take ownership and focus on what matters most for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CEO did not say how many jobs would go, but argued the changes are necessary because the company has become inefficient.<\/p>\n

The changes will therefore see Canva combine its product, growth and platform teams into a single \u201cProduct Org,\u201d which Perkins says means \u201cchanging the way we work to provide clearer ownership, greater autonomy and flexibility to tackle our most important goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

She characterized the changes as \u201csimplifying layers, consolidating overlapping responsibilities, and ensuring teams have the right mix of skills and experience for the chapter ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CEO three times described herself as \u201cdeeply sorry\u201d for the changes.<\/p>\n

Affected staff will receive a calendar invite for an optional individual meeting with a senior leader. Remaining staff get to attend two rounds of meetings next week \u2013 one company-wide affair and another with their reorganized teams.<\/p>\n

Another of Perkins\u2019 decisions will see Canva move more of its product teams to its headquarters in Sydney, Australia. The company will ask some staff to relocate and has promised \u201ccomprehensive support\u201d to make that happen.<\/p>\n

Departing staff can keep their company-issued MacBooks and will receive at least six months’ pay, a year of health insurance, plus various forms of support to find a new gig including a one-year membership of LinkedIn Premium.<\/p>\n

Perkins\u2019 post does not cite financial pressures as a reason for the layoffs. Canva is privately held and does not face the same financial disclosure requirements as a listed business, but last year revealed<\/a> it had 260 million monthly users and revenue of $3.5 billion. Execs have previously claimed the company is profitable on a free-cash-flow basis.<\/p>\n

Canva and Atlassian are among Australia\u2019s most successful and celebrated technology businesses. Both have now announced job cuts<\/a> this year. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"saas No mention of AI, but a nod to the pace of technological change Australian design software maker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-674362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}