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Orianna Rosa Royle

'I take full responsibility': Why CEOs like Zuckerberg and Pichai are all using the same language around layoffs

Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerbeg and Daniel Ek on a blue background. (Credit: Sajjad Hussain—AFP/Getty Images; David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images; Drew Angerer—Getty Images)

“I take full accountability for the moves that got us here today,” Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek confessed while announcing that 6% of the company was being laid-off.

Elk gave employees a heads-up that around 600 of them were about to have one-on-one conversations about their future at the firm, in a post on the streaming giant’s blog on Monday.

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