Online furniture retailer Wayfair is reducing its workforce by cutting approximately 1,650 jobs, representing 13% of its global workforce and 19% of its corporate team.
This move is part of the company's ' Workplace Realignment Plan ,' which involves restructuring efforts to streamline operations and reduce costs amid a challenging economic climate.
site. The changes announced today reflect a return to our core principles on resource allocation, such as getting fit on spans and layers as well as focusing on our highest priorities.
As a result, we're reducing team sizes across the organization, as well as reducing seniority in certain roles that we plan to rebuild with modified leveling over the course of this year," commented Shah, CEO, co-founder, and co-chairman, Wayfair.
"While today's actions will bolster our Adjusted EBITDA roadmap, I am increasingly focused on generating Adjusted EBITDA in excess of equity-based compensation as well as capital expenditures, and intend to drive meaningful improvements here quickly.
We believe that what matters is maximizing our Free Cash Flow while simultaneously tightly controlling and ultimately reducing total share count, and are treating this as our north star." Shah continued in a press release , "To our colleagues departing Wayfair, I want to thank you for your incredible contributions to Wayfair and to our customers…
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