TripActions

TripActions laid off 300 employees via a group Zoom call

🌎 Palo Alto βˆ™ πŸ‘©β€πŸ’Ό 300 employees (25%) βˆ™ πŸ–₯ Customer support, recruiting, sales

TripActions, whose software helps companies manage corporate travel, laid off 300 workers last week (see link below for the listπŸ‘‡). 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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Quora

Quora announces layoffs

🌎 Mountain View βˆ™ πŸ‘©β€πŸ’Ό At least 12 employees βˆ™ πŸ–₯ Mostly engineering

Quora, the question & answer website, announced a partial layoff to reduce costs to a more sustainable level. It’s unknown how many of the company’s ~200 employees were affected, but their layoff list (see link below πŸ‘‡) includes about a dozen people — mostly engineers in the Bay Area.