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May 26, 2022

Glovo cuts dozens of jobs over Zoom months after acquisition

Current and former employees at the food delivery company tell Sifted they were assured they’d keep their jobs


Tim Smith

7 min read

A Glovo courier

Almost 40% of employees from food delivery startup Foodpanda’s Romania office have been asked to leave the company since Spanish speedy grocery unicorn Glovo acquired the business, Sifted has learnt. 

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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