Webflow announced layoffs and employees reported losing access to Slack and work email before receiving official termination notices. Some workers said they were locked out of company systems minutes before messages arrived, and termination emails appeared in personal inboxes shortly afterward. A spokesperson said access restrictions were implemented a few minutes before notifications to protect customer data. The CEO stated the company reached an inflection point and that AI is rewriting how marketing teams build and optimize digital experiences. Webflow said it made a difficult decision to restructure and offered a separation package including 16 weeks of severance, additional pay based on years of service, six months of COBRA coverage, continued benefits where required, and the option to keep company laptops. The company positioned the change as a shift toward an agentic web marketing platform.
"Employees told the San Francisco Chronicle they woke up to a rush of messages from colleagues, then discovered they could no longer get into Slack or work email. Minutes later, termination notices showed up in their personal inboxes. One former developer said they realized something was wrong when Slack access vanished before any official email arrived. Another worker said she discovered she had been logged out of her work email while she was at the gym."
"A Webflow spokesperson told the paper that access restrictions were put in place "a few minutes before notifications were sent" in order to protect customer data, according to the San Francisco Chronicle."
"In a post on the company blog, CEO Linda Tong wrote that Webflow had reached "an inflection point" and argued that AI is "rewriting the rules" for how marketing teams build and optimize digital experiences. Tong said the company had made "the difficult decision to restructure" and outlined a separation package that includes 16 weeks of severance, plus one extra week of pay for every completed year of service."
"Webflow is also offering six months of COBRA coverage for U.S. teammates, continued benefits where legally allowed, and the option for employees to keep their company laptops. The company framed the move as a strategic shift toward an "agentic web marketing platform," according to Webflow."
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