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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I Deep-Dived Into Two Of The Most Common “Make-Money-Working-From-Home” Scams: Bitcoin Trading And Affiliate Marketing

Monica Bansal

With the Coronavirus lockdown, and ensuing lockdowns, institutionalised work-from-homes, job losses and more time than ever on hand, work-from-home jobs have seen a surge in popularity.
And along with the legit opportunities, newer job descriptions, and genuine remote gigs have come scams. As I’d discover after days of a sting operation, the internet is replete with thousands of unscrupulous con artists out there to trap those unsuspecting folks who’re all but looking to find an alternate, easy enough income stream.

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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.