The new Glen Rocket is ready for the inauguration ceremony at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA on January 10th, 2025.
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Jeff Bezos’ CEO of Blue Origin was announced in an all-hand call with a company-wide layoff of “about 10%” of its employees. This is a drastic readjustment aimed at reducing costs and increasing rocket launches.
The layoffs have affected about 1,400 of the company’s nearly 14,000 employees (focused primarily in Texas, Washington and Washington), and the giant New Glen Rocket, which held its first, long-awaited debut run last month. Production begins to produce blue origin.
“There’s no easy way to tell this,” Dave Limp told conference employees. “There’s no doubt that we’ve achieved a lot of success in the last few months.”
“But with that being said, looking at what you need to reach the foundation of the company and over the next 3-5 years, we just haven’t set up for success like success. We came to this painful conclusion. We really wanted it,” Limp said.
Limp said the decision will help Blue Origin expand its new Glenn Manufacturing and increase Rocket’s launch cadence.
To do this, the company needs a culture that is “quick, agile, decisive, highly focused on customers.” Amazon’s Customer-facing device units will lead the blue origins in the second half of 2023.
Limp is responsible for streamlining many of Blue Origin’s business units (from space stations to lunar landers for NASA) and focusing on the new Glen, and after years of development paralysis, It gives the company a new sense of urgency.
However, some employees believe in morale, and the company’s culture is struggling in the push to speed of limp, two employees say, and some staff survived Thursday’s layoffs. He added that he is looking for work elsewhere regardless of who is there.
