Octopus Publishing has made redundancies, citing under-performance and changing market conditions.
The company has not confirmed how many roles are affected or which parts of the business carry the cuts.
It follows a run of restructuring across UK publishing and media, where shifting retail patterns and rising production costs have squeezed margins across the sector.
"Under-performance" as a stated reason is worth paying attention to. Redundancy is about a role disappearing, not about how well someone did it. If individual performance is being used to decide who goes, that is a different process with different protections, and dressing it up as redundancy can make the dismissal unfair.
Ask what the selection pool was and what criteria were scored. Publishing teams are often small, which can mean a pool of one, and a pool of one needs a genuine justification rather than a convenient conclusion.
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