🌎 Boston ∙ 👩💼 Hundreds of employees (20%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Zipcar, the rental car company, laid off 20% of staff last week. We now have a list of laid-off employees (see below👇). The list skews towards people in the engineering, product, and design functions.
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🌎 Los Angeles ∙ 👩💼 8 employees (10%) ∙ 🖥 Business roles
HopSkipDrive, a ride service for families and their children, laid off 10% of its team on March 13. A company executive provided Layoffs.fyi a list of the laid-off employees (see below👇). Demand for HopSkipDrive’s service has been affected by kids staying home from school.
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🌎 Toronto, Chicago, NYC ∙ 👩💼 196 employees (54%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Ritual, a food ordering app for takeout, laid off the majority of their staff today (see link below for the list 👇). The company cut 196 employees, primarily in their Toronto HQ but also in its U.S. locations. Business was severely impacted by restaurants closing down and people working from home.
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This week Layoffs.fyi has already tracked 23 startups that cut jobs, affecting over 1,500 employees. And there’s still two days left ☹️.
Below are a few of this week’s layoffs. Check out our Layoffs Tracker for a comprehensive, real-time report. If you’ve seen a layoff spreadsheet for any of these companies, please let us know!
🌎 Nashville, Chicago, SF ∙ 👩💼 349 employees (18%) ∙ 🖥 Mostly sales and business roles
KeepTruckin, which helps trucking companies manage their fleets, laid off 349 employees today (see link below for the list 👇). This comes just one month after the company’s previous round of layoffs. KeepTruckin expects new customer acquisition to slow and existing customers to churn due to small trucking companies going out of business.
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🌎 Los Angeles ∙ 👩💼 50+ employees (30%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
PeerStreet, a crowdfunding platform for investing in real estate loans, laid off 30% of their staff yesterday. According to an HR employee, the company let go over 50 employees across multiple departments (see link below for the list👇). PeerStreet is the first fintech startup to do a layoff post-COVID 19, but the 3rd one beginning with “Peer” (along with Peerspace and Peerfit).
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🌎 Palo Alto ∙ 👩💼 300 employees (25%) ∙ 🖥 Customer support, recruiting, sales
TripActions, whose software helps companies manage corporate travel, laid off 300 workers last week (see link below for the list👇). The layoffs primarily affected customer support, recruiting, and sales. The company blamed the layoff on the decline in business travel, but got flack for notifying employees about the news via a group Zoom call.
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🌎 San Francisco ∙ 👩💼 40 employees ∙ 🖥 All departments
Peerspace, a marketplace for booking space for events and meetings, laid off a majority of their staff last week (see link below for the list👇). The company has seen bookings slow and cancellations increase dramatically due to social distancing measures.
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🌎 Los Angeles ∙ 👩💼 406 employees (30%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Bird, the electric scooter company, laid off 30% of staff, or 406 employees (see link below for the list👇). Bird had already paused its services in many markets in response to the coronavirus. Scooter companies are reeling from the pandemic — in January, competitor Lime laid off 100 employees and is expected to do another round of layoffs shortly.
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🌎 San Francisco∙ 👩💼 80 employees (30%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
We previously mentioned that Zeus Living, which rents out furnished apartments on a monthly basis to business travelers, laid off 80 employees. We now have a list of affected employees (see link below👇). The list spans across engineering, product, and business roles.
See our live Layoffs Tracker for a real-time report of all startups that have done layoffs.