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Grocery-delivery giant Instacart announced today that it’s laying off around 250 employees, or roughly 7% of the company’s global workforce, as part of a restructuring. Instacart CEO Fidji Simo said in a letter to investors that the layoffs will allow the company to streamline how it operates. The company announced the layoffs alongside the release of its fourth-quarter earnings.
“Today, we made the tough decision to part with approximately 250 of our talented team members,” Simo wrote. “This will allow us to reshape the company and flatten the organization so we can focus on our most promising initiatives that we believe will transform our company and industry over the long-term. I am confident this will enable us to execute with even more focus and efficiency moving forward.”
Instacart also announced that three executives, including its chief technology officer and chief operating officer, will be leaving the company for personal reasons.
Shares of Instacart are up about 3% in after-market trading.
“Our consumer product is the best it has ever been, enabling us to invest more than we ever have before on marketing and incentives that have the ability to resurrect and attract new users as well as deepen engagement with existing users,” Simo wrote. “We’re doing all of this while maintaining our relentless focus on profitable growth and our long-term financial targets.”
Instacart reported revenues of $803 million for its fourth-quarter, slightly down from analysts’ $804.7 million estimate.
Instacart is one of many tech companies to conduct layoffs in the past month. Numerous tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Snapchat, eBay, PayPal, DocuSign, Okta, Block, Discord, Twitch and Duolingo have all conducted sizable layoffs in just the past two weeks.
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