Did going through a layoff of 80 people change your leadership style?

Surviving a mass layoff

I'm even scared to hold this."Has your leadership style changed after witnessing 80 people being laid off?" 100%. At Código Nuevo, I live in fear of what happened at Playground,the media outlet I worked for before, happening here, too.

I have to say, when you're in your early twenties,working somewhere you deeply admire, with 150 people whose goal is to create ever more innovative, modern,viral formats, that word...

And when you see incredibly talented people who've worked endless extra hours they won't get back,earning low wages, and then one day they're told that in a few months there's going to be a mass layoff and half the staff will be gone, it's quite traumatic,seeing talented people who gave everything be fired, honestly.

I think that's why I'm so cautious now,like, I'd rather the company grows much more slowly, but resources are never too many, but only hiring when they are needed and honestly, not the other way round: dreaming big and crashing hard.

At Código Nuevo, we're lucky to belong to a big media group like Prensa Ibérica, in which my general director,our general director, and founder have great trust, again,in a project led by young women under 32 years old, because it's like:"Wow, you're really doing it right,meeting the goals, this is growing massively.

And when a big player trust you that much, it's an extra boost of energy to keep doing things right, which makes us believe in ourselves,believe we're doing it right.

So having that kind of backing from the big players is super important.

And when it's someone who knows so much about media,who's seen everything, from print to the shift to internet,to digital, to now fully digital outlets,it's like, wow, it's super important. And one can't help but feel grateful.