Uber, Lyft and Airbnb cut thousands of jobs as pandemic batters Silicon Valley
by Kari Paul in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#536ZG)
Juul, Yelp and hundreds of startups among tech firms cutting jobs while Amazon and Zoom see huge boosts
The economic fallout from the coronavirus has come to Silicon Valley, with major tech firms announcing layoffs in recent weeks.
On Wednesday, Uber became the latest company to announce cuts, revealing in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will lay off 3,700 workers - roughly 14% of its global workforce.
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