Category: Layoff list

Greenhouse

Greenhouse lays off 120 employees

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🌎 New York City ∙ 👩 120 employees (28%)∙ 🖥 All departments

Greenhouse, which makes applicant tracking software for recruiting, laid off 120 employees (28%) on Friday. It’s the latest recruiting startup to conduct layoffs, following competitor Lever’s layoff of 86 employees (40%) a week before. Greenhouse is offering affected employees 8 weeks of severance and 8 months of healthcare.

UPDATE: The link to Greenhouse’s layoff spreadsheet has been removed upon their request.

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Groupon

Groupon laid off or furloughed 2,800 employees as local merchants close

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🌎 Chicago, Seattle, SF Bay Area ∙ 👩 2,800 employees (44%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

Groupon, a marketplace for discounts from local businesses, announced Tuesday it was cutting 44% of its team (2,800 employees). See below link 👇for a partial list of 160+ employees laid off, 1/4 of which are engineers. Groupon has seen a “material deterioration” in its business due to the closure of local businesses it works with.

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Jetty

Jetty laid off 40% of staff after pausing sales of new insurance policies

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🌎 New York City ∙ 👩 35 employees (40%) ∙ 🖥 Primarily business roles

Jetty, which sells insurance to renters, laid off 40% of its team (35 employees) earlier this month. See below link👇for a partial list of employees laid off, which skews towards business roles in NYC. Jetty had recently paused sales of new insurance policies due to coronavirus-related underwriting challenges. The company says the layoff was unrelated to the pause.

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Opendoor

Opendoor lays off 600 people amid declining real estate activity

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🌎 San Francisco, Phoenix, Atlanta ∙ 👩 600 employees (35%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

Opendoor, which facilitates the buying and selling of residential homes, laid off 35% of its staff yesterday. That amounts to 600 employees, making Opendoor’s layoff the 2nd largest among pre-IPO startups since the coronavirus pandemic (Toast cut 1,300 last week). See below link 👇for an opt-in spreadsheet of employees laid off, spanning multiple functions. Opendoor says laid-off employees will receive 8 weeks of pay and 16 weeks of reimbursement for health insurance.

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VSCO

VSCO lays off 45 employees (30%)

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🌎 SF Bay Area ∙ 👩 45 employees (30%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

VSCO, a photography mobile app, laid off 45 employees (30%) yesterday. The CEO says the cuts were needed to “shift towards running a self-sustaining business.” VSCO is providing a minimum of 7 weeks of severance pay and 2 months of health coverage, as well as assisting with job placement resources. To that end, see below link 👇for a list of laid-off employees, mostly in the SF Bay Area.

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Yelp

Yelp laid off 1,000 employees and furloughed another 1,100

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🌎 San Francisco, NYC, Chicago ∙ 👩 1,000 employees (17%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

Last week Yelp, the local business reviews website, became one of the highest-profile tech companies to announce a layoff. The company laid off 1,000 employees (17%) and furloughed another 1,100. Yelp has seen customer interest in restaurants, its most popular category, decline 64% since March 10. See below link 👇for an opt-in spreadsheet of employees laid off.

UPDATE: Added a second opt-in spreadsheet of employees laid off, containing primarily engineers.

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Compass

Compass laid off 375 employees, showings have dropped by 60%

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🌎 NYC, SF, LA, Seattle ∙ 👩 375 employees (15%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

We previously mentioned that Compass, the real estate brokerage, laid off 375 staffers in late March. We now have access to a partial list of employees laid off (see below link👇). Compass has seen showings drop by 60% as people stay home during the pandemic. Many other real estate startups, including Redfin and Blueground, have also laid off workers in the past month.

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Lever

Lever laid off 86 employees

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🌎 San Francisco, Toronto ∙ 👩 109 employees (40%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

UPDATE: A Lever employee says that 86 people were laid off, not 109 as Business Insider had estimated.

Lever, which makes applicant tracking software for recruiting, laid off 40% of its employees last week. The layoffs affected 109 86 people in their San Francisco and Toronto offices (see below link for an opt-in list👇). Recruiting has been one of the tech sectors hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, as companies have been slowing down hiring (and as we know, also laying people off). Recruiting startups ZipRecruiter, AngelList, and Triplebyte have also conducted layoffs recently.

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Eventbrite

Eventbrite laid off 500 employees

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🌎 San Francisco, Nashville ∙ 👩 500 employees (45%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

Eventbrite, the ticketing and events website, laid off 45% of its employees last week. Around 500 employees were affected across their San Francisco and Nashville offices (see below link for an opt-in list of laid-off employees👇). Eventbrite is highly dependent on live events, which have halted as a result of shelter-in-place. Its share price had fallen over 70% since mid-March.

UPDATE: Added a second opt-in list of employees laid off

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Connected

Connected laid off 17 employees

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🌎 Toronto ∙ 👩 17 employees (10%) ∙ 🖥 Design, product, engineering

Connected.io, a software product development firm based in Toronto, laid off 17 employees (10%) last week. If you’re hiring for design, product, or engineering roles in Toronto, see below link for an opt-in list of laid-off employees👇. Toronto tech firms Ritual and Ecobee have also recently conducted layoffs.

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