Tech layoffs seem like placing in all places, and Spotify is the newest sufferer. The streaming firm has reportedly laid off 38 staff from its Gimlet and Parcast studios, which produce Spotify Original podcast content material. With the layoffs come the cancellation of 11 of these Spotify Original podcasts, 3 from Gimlet and eight from Parcast.

“Yesterday Spotify told show teams that their podcasts were being cancelled because of low numbers,” Gimlet Union and Parcast Union stated in a joint assertion on October 7. “But decisions Spotify leadership made directly contributed to those low numbers.”

The unions allege that a few of these reveals misplaced as a lot as 75% of their audiences, which led to the layoffs, and that producers and hosts got “as little as an hour” to complete their work upon studying they had been laid off. Spotify didn’t instantly return Gizmodo’s request for remark.