Sunday, February 16, 2025

Fee Processor Stripe Lays Off Workers Through Cartoon Duck

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Information of layoffs has appeared nonstop in January, with CNN, Citigroup, and Microsoft all reducing roles this week alone. Often, these notices are fairly customary—heavy on the authorized wording, and light-weight on the cartoons.

However that wasn’t the case at Stripe, a funds software program firm that laid off 300 employees on Monday. Some staff within the varied roles affected (product, operations, engineering) had been notified by an illustration of a cartoon duck, Business Insider reports. The dates on the termination notices had been additionally incorrect.

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The illustration was despatched as a PDF attachment and mentioned, “US-Non-California Duck.” Enterprise Insider acquired an image of the yellow duck from staff on a Blind chat.

“The comms to these laid off had been flubbed fully,” one worker reportedly wrote.

A Stripe consultant instructed Enterprise Insider that follow-up emails went out to affected staff.

“I apologize for the error and any confusion it triggered,” wrote Rob McIntosh, the corporate’s chief folks officer. “Corrected and full notifications have since been despatched to all impacted Stripes.”

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Stripe is valued at $70 billion within the personal markets, per CNBC.

Regardless of the cuts, McIntosh mentioned the corporate is “not slowing down hiring” and expects to extend its workforce by 17% this 12 months to 10,000.




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