Analysis

February 10, 2023

How do startups decide who to lay off?

With news of staff cuts continuing to roll in, Sifted looked at how companies typically conduct layoffs


Credit: Desola Lanre-Ologun from Unsplash

When an operations manager at a large European tech company was recently asked by his manager to cut 140 employees, he wasn’t given any clear instruction from the top on how to do so. He was left to figure it out for himself.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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