Wayfair Layoffs Focused on Remote Workers
More wayfair drama In a significant shift in its remote work policy, Wayfair (NYSE:W), a leading online furniture retailer, has recently prioritized in-office employees over remote workers in its latest round of layoffs. https://m.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/wayfair-targets-remote-work-amidst-major-layoffs-3281121 https://www.wsj.com/business/wayfair-layoffs-focused-on-remote-workers-9ec2f037 I suspected this as one of my friends is ex wayfair and he told most of affected seemed to be remote. Why hire remote employees only to lay them off..
Dump wayfair stock
all things equal, why would you not layoff the remote worker over in person worker?
Remote employees are more efficient and don’t take up office space. Could also likely get away with paying them less since remote is a benefit
Because downtown office space is expensive
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Remote workers are easy target for layoff in any company, out of sight out of mind, nobody cares about getting rid of someone they never spend time with in person