https://www.ecommercebytes.com/tag/layoffs/ Ecommerce Industry News Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:07:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EB_site_icon-150x150.gif https://www.ecommercebytes.com/tag/layoffs/ 32 32 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/01/21/amazon-lays-off-members-of-buy-with-prime-team/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/01/21/amazon-lays-off-members-of-buy-with-prime-team/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:06:59 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=230312 CNBC reported that Amazon is laying off employees in the “Buy with Prime” unit, a program first announced in 2022 that lets merchants offer Prime benefits on their own off-Amazon stores. We asked Amazon if that indicated adoption was less Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/01/21/amazon-lays-off-members-of-buy-with-prime-team/feed/ 2 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2023/05/04/shopify-downsizes-by-20-and-sells-fulfillment-unit/ https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2023/05/04/shopify-downsizes-by-20-and-sells-fulfillment-unit/#comments Thu, 04 May 2023 16:48:49 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=229274 Shopify will be smaller by about 20% after today, according to founder and CEO Tobi Lütke, as the company lays off employees and announced the sale of its logistics business to Flexport, which is headed by the former head of Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2023/05/04/shopify-downsizes-by-20-and-sells-fulfillment-unit/feed/ 2 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2023/01/31/paypal-to-layoff-7-percent-of-its-workforce/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 01:56:14 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=228812 PayPal will layoff 2,000 full time employees, which is about 7% of its total workforce, the company announced on Tuesday. It comes as other tech and ecommerce companies have laid off employees, including Amazon and Shopify. In PayPal’s case, CEO Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/12/16/ecommerce-platform-bigcommerce-announces-layoffs-renewed-focus/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:34:37 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=228582 BigCommerce is laying off workers and cutting costs as it pushes to reach breakeven by the end of 2023. The ecommerce platform will reduce its workforce by approximately 13% across employees and contractors, it announced on Thursday. BigCommerce rival Shopify Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2022/07/26/heralded-as-amazon-rival-shopify-announces-major-layoffs/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:44:14 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=227893 Ecommerce darling Shopify was held up by many as a possible solution for merchants seeking an alternative to Amazon, but the platform’s eyes were bigger than its belly when it came to ramping up hiring to meet demand driven by Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2015/02/03/ebay-paypal-begin-cutting-7-percent-workforce/ Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:24:19 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=4754 Read more]]> https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2014/12/23/commercehub-acquire-mercent-following-layoffs/ Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:57:16 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=4996 Read more]]>