Today’s Zoom layoffs will affect 1,300 employees at the online video conferencing software company, which got a big boost in use during the Covid-19 pandemic in the last few years.
Sadly, the tech industry has been hit again with news of a mass layoff. This time, the company is Zoom, which announced today it was letting go of 1,300 employees, or a big 15 percent of its total workforce.
In a blog post, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan noted that in the last 24 months, Zoom added three times its previous employee workforce, as tons of companies started using its video conferencing software during the Covid-19 pandemic.
