MySpace se está planteando despedir a la mitad de sus empleados...

MySpace plans to lay off 550 to 600 workers on Tuesday, All Things Digital reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Rumors of MySpace layoffs have been flying around for quite a while now, but now it seems the date has been set to January 11. MySpace is restructuring and shedding legacy businesses and products as its owner, News Corp. is looking to sell the company, possibly even to Yahoo, ATD claims.

After once being what Facebook is now — a social networking behemoth — MySpace has steadily been losing users in the past couple of years, and was recently surpassed by Twitter when it comes to traffic. MySpace underwent a dramatic redesign a few months back, and the network still enjoys a lot of popularity with bands and music fans. However, whether the new direction for the company, which focuses on social entertainment — primarily music, TV shows, actors and games — will help MySpace gain new fans, remains to be seen.

If the report about the new layoffs is real, this will not be the first major restructuring for MySpace. In June 2009, the company slashed 30% of its workforce, which left it at its current number of 1,000 employees.

We have reached to MySpace for a comment about the layoffs, but still havenÂ’t heard from them.