Bird has begun laying off 23% of its roughly 600 employees, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. A Bird spokesperson told TechCrunch the scooter and bike rental company’s desire to speed up its effort to become profitable drove the layoff. Bird is also cutting “all non-critical third party spend,” the spokesperson said, without specifying which items that category included. Employees who are let...
Scooter Company Bird to Slash 23% of Staff
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