Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is a significant deduction in the number of employees. CEO Dave Limp announced that the company will dismiss about 10 percent of its employees in order to reduce costs and accelerate rocket production. This decision is linked to the goal of accelerating the production process of Blue Origin’s giant New Glenn rocket.

Blue Origin is firing 1400 people

Blue Origin, which has approximately 14,000 employees, aims to make its operations more agile and customer -oriented with these layoffs, which will affect their staff in Florida, Texas and Washington. CEO Limp says that Blue Origin’s current structure is not enough to achieve the company’s long -term goals and therefore they have to make a difficult decision. He admits that they do not make the necessary changes to achieve success and emphasize that they should reshape their organizations.

Behind Blue Origin’s move, Elon Musk’s desire to come to a stronger position in competition with Spacex. The company, which wants to break the dominant position of Falcon 9 in the industry, aims to accelerate New Glenn’s production process and realize more frequent launching. However, this aggressive transformation process has been concerned about Blue Origin employees. Some employees who do not want to give their name, the company’s acceleration efforts adversely affect the business environment and cause loss of morale, he says. In fact, some employees say they intend to leave the company even if they are not affected by the wave of dismissal.