Startups’ pink slip count falls to 10,000 amid funding bluesFiring in first half of 2024 lesser than H2, H1 of ’23, signalling a slight recovery. Ola Electric is in the final stages of laying off ove...
16 Jun, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
How startups are changing their hiring strategies to streamline costsFacing a prolonged funding drought, startups are trying a new approach to cost-cutting. Layoffs continue, but some companies, like Swiggy a...
06 Jun, 2024, 07.29 AM IST
AMD to invest $400 million in India; Reliance's Milkbasket to see layoffs, redundanciesIn a boost for India’s Semiconductor Mission, California-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will invest $400 million in India, its chief te...
28 Jul, 2023, 07.57 PM IST
Startups fired 6,000 in October-December 2022, 4,000 in January 2023 aloneWith investors tightening their purse strings because of the volatility in the global economy, many unicorns and startups such as Byju’s, S...
08 Feb, 2023, 08.15 AM IST
Exclusive: More consumer internet startups like ShareChat, Dunzo, Rebel Foods join layoff waveThe latest developments at ShareChat, Dunzo and Rebel are an extension of what has transpired in the so-called new economy over the last si...
16 Jan, 2023, 08.30 PM IST
Ola fires about 200 employees in a fresh round of layoffsIn September, the company rescinded the retrenchment of about 200 engineers. One of the sources told ET that the current layoffs are the sa...
13 Jan, 2023, 08.42 PM IST
Ola sacks 200 employees; Wipro net profit up 2.3% in Q3, beats estimatesRiding haling and electric vehicle firm Ola has had a torrid time since the start of the pandemic three years ago. The company laid off as ...
13 Jan, 2023, 07.41 PM IST
Futile for IT firms to prevent moonlighting: Rajeev Chandrasekar, Wipro rolls out annual hikes for FY22, TCS wants staff back in officeRide-hailing company Ola has decided to not lay off the 200 engineers the company was earlier planning to let go, according to sources in t...
23 Sep, 2022, 08.25 PM IST
Ola rescinds move to fire 200 engineersEmployees were informed about the change in plan at a town hall meeting helmed by senior technology leaders at the company.
23 Sep, 2022, 07.54 PM IST
Ola fires 200 more engineers in fresh round of layoffsThe company had laid off around 1,000 employees already this year as the company repurposed its focus to the ride-hailing and EV business.
19 Sep, 2022, 09.57 PM IST
Oyo revives IPO plans; Ola sacks 200 more engineersOyo Hotels & Homes, which filed for an initial public offering in October 2021 but put it off earlier this year because of the pandemic and...
19 Sep, 2022, 07.40 PM IST
Bhavish Aggarwal’s Ola Electric is beefing up hiring for ambitious car projectOla is expected to release blueprint on August 15.
13 Aug, 2022, 09.15 AM IST
Ola to lay off 1,000 employees while hiring aggressively for EV bizThe entire restructuring exercise – which is expected to be on for a few weeks more - is to focus more on its electric mobility business, w...
29 Jul, 2022, 08.01 AM IST
Ola electric mobility goes on hiring spreeOla Electric Mobility (OEM) recently onboarded Vithal Acharya as its new human resources head and plans to hire at least half a dozen more ...
04 Jun, 2020, 10.20 AM IST
Ola plans to slash jobs ahead of IPOValued at around $6 billion, Ola plans to go public in around two to three years and being profitable before filing for an IPO is a desirab...
29 Nov, 2019, 09.05 AM IST
Job cuts on the rise in 2016: Companies that gave the pink slips this yearOla, an app-based cab service provider gave pink slip to 700 employees pan-India in August this year.
17 Oct, 2016, 08.34 PM IST
Despite pink slips in IT and startup firms, job prospects not all that bad: ExpertsLayoffs are becoming pretty common these days as there were recent reports of job loss in Flipkart, Askme, Ola and Infosys, among others.
28 Aug, 2016, 03.18 PM IST