Over a thousand jobs are going at eBay as ecommerce giant admits it grew too fast
eBay says goodbye to around 1,000 workers
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eBay has announced plans to cut around a thousand jobs as the company looks to ensure its “long-term success”.
Anannouncementby company CEO Jamie Iannone confirmed that “approximately 1,000 roles,” or the equivalent of around 9% of the company’s full-time workforce, would be eliminated as it strives for better cost efficiency.
The ecommerce giant claims to have been on a transformative journey over the past three years, since the pandemic, making shifts in user experiences and driving customer satisfaction in certain areas that have received investment.
eBay announces large-scale layoffs
Though layoffs have continued into 2024, the final weeks of 2022 and the early part of 2023 were considered to be the most serious. A total of more than 262,000 tech workers were made redundant in the 2023 calendar year (vialayoffs.fyi), with some of the most considerable reductions accounting for around 10-15% of companies’ workforces.
eBay’s decision to reduce its headcount by 9% is pretty significant, even by 2023’s standards, however it’s unclear precisely what percentage of all of the company’s workers is affected, given that the 9% relates to full-time workers only.
The announcement confirmed that, despite continued consumer spend, eBay’s spend has become a problem: “our overall headcount and expenses have outpaced the growth of our business.”
Leaders have been told to communicate the workforce changes directly via eBay’s preferredvideo conferencingplatform, Zoom. In a bid to soften the blow, the company asked all US workers to work from home on January 24 to allow “space and privacy for these conversations.”
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TechRadar Proasked eBay to confirm more details about the layoffs, including any information regarding a redundancy package to support affected workers. The company did not immediately respond.
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