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Lever laid off 86 employees (Layoffs.fyi, April 13, 2020)

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Lever laid off 86 employees, according to an update on this layoff-list entry dated 04/13/2020, in which a Lever employee says 86 people were laid off, not 109 as Business Insider had estimated, and Lever, which makes applicant tracking software for recruiting, laid off 40% of its employees last week, in its San Francisco and Toronto offices, across all departments. The entry says recruiting has been one of the tech sectors hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, and that ZipRecruiter, AngelList and Triplebyte have also conducted layoffs recently.

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Lever laid off 86 employees

04/13/2020 10/27/2020 Layoff list Lever , Recruiting , San Francisco , Toronto

🌎 San Francisco, Toronto ∙ 👩 109 employees (40%) ∙ 🖥 All departments

UPDATE: A Lever employee says that 86 people were laid off, not 109 as Business Insider had estimated.

Lever, which makes applicant tracking software for recruiting, laid off 40% of its employees last week. The layoffs affected 109 86 people in their San Francisco and Toronto offices (see below link for an opt-in list👇). Recruiting has been one of the tech sectors hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, as companies have been slowing down hiring (and as we know, also laying people off). Recruiting startups ZipRecruiter , AngelList, and Triplebyte have also conducted layoffs recently.

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