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HubSpot to lay off 7% of workforce
Original: HubSpot to lay off 7% of workforce to create 'flatter, faster organization'
HubSpot is cutting roughly 7% of its staff, a move the company frames as creating a 'flatter, faster organization'. The Cambridge-based software firm has been restructuring amid pressure to improve efficiency and integrate AI across its business. Critics say such framing masks ordinary cost-cutting, and the layoffs add to a wave of tech job cuts announced this year, renewing debate over how companies treat workers during restructurings.
Why now: Tech layoffs continue across the industry and the company's 'flatter organization' framing is drawing skepticism
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