Layoffs

20 stories about Layoffs
ליאור סוסן ברייט משינס

Bright Machines lays off 30 employees in Israel

28.06.22|Meir Orbach
The American company develops software-defined autonomous manufacturing lines for industry and has an R&D and operations center in Kibbutz Yakum in Israel’s Sharon region
מטה עליבאבא בייג'ינג

Alibaba closes R&D center in Israel, lays off entire staff

27.06.22|Meir Orbach
Around 50 employees were notified on Sunday that they will be laid off after the Chinese e-commerce giant decided to shut down local development
הייטק פיטורים משרד ריק שבוע עבודה מקוצר

Layoffs in tech: Israeli high-tech companies prefer to start abroad

27.06.22|Meir Orbach
Over recent years, many Israeli companies have chosen to develop their core locally while expanding the rest of the company abroad. As a result, while in recent weeks Israeli high-tech companies have laid off hundreds of employees, most of them have chosen to start overseas
סטרים אלמנטס StreamElements

StreamElements to lay off 20% of employees less than a year after raising $100 million led by SoftBank

26.06.22|Meir Orbach
The company, which provides engagement and monetization tools for live and VOD content creators, joins Cybereason and Trax on the list of Israeli SoftBank-backed startups making cuts
Airspan Networks איירספאן ישראל איירפורט סיטי

Airspan laying off 35 employees in Israel

22.06.22|Meir Orbach
The U.S. company announced just four months ago that it plans on recruiting dozens of additional employees in the country
מימין יואל בר אל דרור פלדהיים חברת  Trax טראקס טרקס

Retail analytics unicorn Trax to lay off over 100 employees

20.06.22|Meir Orbach
“We still have a lot of money in our account from last year’s funding round, but we are required to reach profitability faster than we had planned,” said Trax co-founder and Executive Chairman Joel Bar-El
רוברט אנטוקול מייסד ומנכ"ל פלייטיקה

Playtika to lay off 250 employees in North America and Europe

31.05.22|Meir Orbach
The gaming giant is looking to consolidate some of its activities and therefore decided to close its R&D centers in London and Montreal, and to transfer the activity of its Los Angeles studio to Israel and Poland
לינקדאין אוריבי

Oribi to fire employees following LinkedIn acquisition

06.03.22|Meir Orbach
A week after being acquired by LinkedIn for $90 million, Oribi is firing most of its teams that work with clients, including many marketing, sales, and customer support staff
מק'אפי מקאפי mcafee אבטחה מחשבים מטה החברה סנטה קלרה קליפורניה

McAfee to shut down Israeli development center

12.01.21|Meir Orbach
Employees told layoffs are imminent; the company raised $740 million in 2020 Nasdaq IPO
בירה בר פאב ברמן

Anheuser-Busch firing 20 employees in Israel

24.11.20|Hagar Ravet
World's largest brewery implementing structural changes in the development centers that it set up in Israel as part of digital transformation
Here ליעד יצחק מנהל חטיבת מוביליטי

HERE Mobility shuts down Israel operations, lays off 200 employees

30.07.20|Meir Orbach and Hagar Ravet
Employees told that the move followed a decision by its parent company’s board to focus on core activities
סטויארט סימס מנכ"ל XLMedia

Webpals lays off 72 people as part of its growth strategy

20.07.20|Meir Orbach
Management said firings had nothing to do with the coronavirus pandemic or to the company’s business activities
קורקינט חשמלי שיתוף נסיעות ליפט

Even those who keep their jobs will need to keep their feet on firm soil

17.07.20|Ariel Greisas
"For the first time in our careers, being fired is not just being on your way to the next great thing, it means a prolonged unemployment period "
פיטורים גל סבב פיטורים

The tech sector has been running on excess, Covid-19 is forcing it to trim the fat

17.07.20|Hagar Ravet
Multinational giants and smaller companies in thriving sectors are still recruiting, which is shielding tech talents' employment terms for now
הכניסה לקמפוס התעשייה האווירית 2

Israeli defense powerhouse IAI to stunningly lay off 900 workers

01.07.20|Golan Hazani
CEO resigned, workers union promised to battle the decision
בניין HP אינדיגו בפארק המדע קריית ויצמן

After veteran GM’s resignation, Indigo calls 102 employees in for termination hearings

28.06.20|Meir Orbach
Over the past couple of years, Alon Bar-Shany deflected two separate attempts by HP to downsize Indigo's workforce
סאסן גודארזי מנכל אינטואיט

Israeli employees among 715 fired by financial software giant Intuit

24.06.20|Meir Orbach
The company's CEO, Sasan Goodarzi, announced in a letter to the employees that Intuit will be cutting 7% of its workforce worldwide, laying off 715 people in total
מוסף שבועי 26.9.19 בני לנדא במפעל Lusix ב רחובות

GM’s ‘people-first’ approach was what made Indigo successful, says founder

10.06.20|Golan Hazani
A day after news broke of longtime general manager, Alon Bar-Shany’s resignation, the man who first recruited him sung his praises
בוט רובוט בינה מלאכותית

Robo-journalists will not protect human rights and free speech, says media expert

05.06.20|Maayan Manela
AI is great at making connections and finding patterns but is weak when it comes to the high-level creativity humans are capable of, says researcher and author Noam Lemelshtrich Latar