Roughly 100 Canada-based workers will depart SkipTheDishes, the food delivery service’s chief executive Paul Burns revealed on LinkedIn on Tuesday
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“Decisions that impact people’s jobs are never simple or easy, however the measures we took are necessary to ensure we have the right resources and organizational structure in place to drive sustainable growth,” he said. The cuts come roughly a year after SkipTheDishes’ top job was handed to Burns, who ran Twitter Canada before the company was bought by eccentric billionaire Elon Musk who laid off a significant portion of the workforce.
SkipTheDishes, which was long headquartered in Winnipeg and has been around since 2012, was acquired in December 2016 for $110 million by Just Eat, which merged withMeasures meant to quell the virus temporarily shut down many businesses and pushed people to spend increasing periods of time at home. The lack of venturing out was seen as a boon for food delivery services, which people increasingly turned to as a comfort and convenience during the crisis.
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