{"id":14338,"date":"2009-01-08T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14338"},"modified":"2009-01-08T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:38:17","slug":"funimation-cuts-more-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funimation-cuts-more-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNimation Cuts More Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anime News Network has confirmed that FUNimation laid off at least two employees, including chief operating officer, Brian Burke, yesterday. According to an official company statement, this week&#8217;s terminations conclude FUNimation&#8217;s process of corporate re-structuring in response to &#8220;the current economic climate.&#8221; FUNimation cut about 10% of its staff in July 2007.<\/p>\n<p>According to FUNimation, the staff reductions will not impact the company&#8217;s continued anime acquisition and production.<\/p>\n<p><i>You know the anime industry is facing tough times when even America&#8217;s most successful distributor is forced to make staff cuts.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-01-07\/funimation-lays-off-at-least-two-employees\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anime News Network has confirmed that FUNimation laid off at least two employees, including chief operating officer, Brian Burke, yesterday. According to an official company statement, this week&#8217;s terminations conclude FUNimation&#8217;s process of corporate re-structuring in response to &#8220;the current economic climate.&#8221; FUNimation cut about 10% of its staff in July 2007. According to FUNimation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}