On: Wi-Fi startup Eero lays off 30 employees

[AlexAltea]

Somewhat offtopic but:

> Eero [...] has laid off 20 percent of its workforce (about 30 employees), TechCrunch has learned. Eero confirmed about 30 employees were let go but declined to comment on its total workforce size.

Since the workforce size can be inferred from this information (specifically, Eero seems to have gone from 150 to 120 employees approximately). Am I missing something, or why do they say Eero declined to comment on the workforce size? How did TechCrunch learn that those 30 employees represented 20% of the company workforce?

[dragonwriter → AlexAltea]

> Since the workforce size can be inferred from this information

The 20% information didn't come from, and wasn't confirmed by, Eero, only the 30 people part was confirmed by the company.

> Am I missing something, or why do they say Eero declined to comment on the workforce size?

Because Eero declined to comment on the workforce size.

> Am I missing something, or why do they say Eero declined to comment on the workforce size?

From whoever leaked then information about the layoffs, who was not speaking on behalf of Eero when they did so.

[flylib → AlexAltea]

LinkedIn/Twitter/Facebook, you can find a ballpark number of employees at a company that size pretty easily