Over 20,000 Employees Fired: A List Of All CoVid19 Startup Layoffs In India So Far

OfficeChai Team

By now the huge economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is apparent. With extended lockdowns prevalent around the world and economies being almost shut for 3 months since March now, companies have faced a loss of revenue, burned their cash on fixed costs and employees, and have had to resort to all means of cost-cutting. One of the biggest pitfalls of these cost-cutting measures has been instituting large-scale layoffs. While larger companies in India like Reliance, Infosys, TCS, ITC etc. have instituted paycuts across the aboard and levied a hiring freeze, India’s vaunted startups have had to take rather extreme measures to conserve capital and stretch their VC dollars. While a few have tried reimagining their core business and pivoted to offer newer product market fits for a Covid19 ravaged world, they have also had to let go large chunks of their workforce to cut costs. News of layoffs across startups has been coming in thick and fast. Here’s a list of all the startups that have had publicly announced layoffs so far. This list will be updated in real time as and when we get hold of them.

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People Are Missing Office So Spotify Has Launched A Track That Replicates The Sound Of An Office

OfficeChai Team

While the debates between perks of going to an office vs working from home go on, a large section of people are indeed missing their office, having been away from it for months now. And Spotify is here to fix that. The Swedish music streaming giant has launched a ‘soundtrack’ that seeks to replicate the ambient and usual noises one hears while working in an office.

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Tiktok’s Playstore Rating Restored To 4.4 from 1.1 After Google Deletes Millions Of Negative Reviews Left By Outraged Users

OfficeChai Team

In what seems to have been an overnight cleanup operation by Google, the Android parent has deleted upto 8 million low-ratings left by TikTok users on its app. Last week after an outrage after some of the content posted on TikTok, users had hit it with thousands of 1* rating and negative reviews, bringing down its original rating from a 4.4 star to a 1.1. As of today, the Tiktok rating on Playstore is back to being 4.4 again.

While there has been no public communication from Google about this, the ratings have jumped back up after negative reviews were deleted by Google.

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Live Horoscope Readings, Phone Consults: The Rise Of Tech Savvy, Online Astrologers In India

OfficeChai Team

The post-Covid19 world has put paid to all hopes of two people being in close quarters enough to read one’s future, leave alone holding hands. But these astrologers are not ones to be left behind. They may not have foreseen a pandemic that would wreck the world – including their own profession, but they they have been quick enough to keep up with the times. The Indian astrologers are futuristic, if you will.
While astrologers have lowkey kept with the times, and had a subdued online presence throughout, the last 2 months, – the duration of India’s stringent lockdown – have seen a spurt of astrologers offering their services online.