澳洲，Healius13%， Thoughtworks4%， Finder15%，Linktree17%

夏天甲虫

Two Australian companies have laid off hundreds of staff members as tough market conditions continue to hit business hard.

ASX-listed healthcare company
Healius
has cut 500 full-time roles since the Covid-19 pandemic started.

That represents
13 per cent
of the company out of its original workforce of 6500.

Then last week, a software firm called
Thoughtworks
, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, became the latest casualty of the “tech wreck”, laying off 100 employees.

The redundancies were a
four per cen
t reduction to the company’s total number of staff.

It comes as companies across almost all industries have had to cut back on workers as a recession looms amid rising interest rates, out of control inflation and difficult market conditions for businesses to flourish.

Healius, which offers pathology and imaging services, confirmed to news.com.au that their workforce now resembled the same headcount it had in 2019, prior to the pandemic.

A spokesperson said the 13 per cent reduction was a combination of “natural attrition and redundancies”.

Most of the roles that have been dropped were support and back office roles, which has now turned into a “more efficient” operation.

Staff have been offered severance packages “where applicable”.

“Healius also continues to invest in frontline staff at pathology and imaging sites to enable growth and to service the demand for diagnostic testing which is having a resurgence since the end of the pandemic,” they added.

The health company released its interim results last week which showed it had racked iup losses of $28.7 million in the first half of the current financial year.

Its half-year profit stood at $8.1 million – a significant plunge from the year before, of $244 million.

Meanwhile, The Australian reported that the regional boss of software firm Thoughtworks notified staff of the cuts in a company-wide letter.

Regional managing director Kristan Vingrys wrote that Thoughtworks had “not seen the improvement we need” in the last six months, causing them to decide to lay off staff.

“Unfortunately, given the changes of our operational requirements, your job is one of those that we believe are no longer required for the business, and we are considering making your job redundant,” the letter reads. “Based on the information we have now, we cannot find a suitable redeployment opportunity for you, but will discuss this further with you during a consultation meeting.”

Mr Vingrys described the announcement as “upsetting and difficult” and added that it was “not an easy decision to make”.

The cuts have reportedly mostly impacted newly-hired university graduates.


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南京路

In the past six months, Australia’s tech, finance and health care industries have been caught in the throes of a crisis as tough market conditions bite.

Another software development company,
Kinde, laid off 28.5 per cent
of staff at the end of last month.

Also in February, comparison website
Finder.com.au laid off or restructured 15 per cent
of its workforce.

An Australian social media start-up called
Linktree
that was recently valued at $1.78 billion sacked
17 per cent
of staff from its global operations.

Then there was Australian healthcare start-up
Eucalyptus
that provides treatments for obesity, acne and erectile dysfunction, which fired up to
20 per cent
of staff after an investment firm pulled its funding at the last minute.

Debt collection start-up
Indebted let go of 40
of its employees just before the end of the financial year, despite its valuation soaring to more than $200 million, with most of the redundancies made across sales and marketing.

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The growing list of redundancies also included Australian buy now, pay later provider
Brighte
, that offers money for home improvements and solar power, which let go of
15 per cent
of its staff in June, and another BNPL called
BizPay
which made
30 per cent
of its workforce redundant.

安静之海

四处说裁员，可是也没感觉待业难？ 听说跳槽换任务很容易？

qqyb

？？很容易？从高薪升高薪跳槽是不难

文大华

被裁员的，假如维持原薪找任务难吗？仍是说根本要降薪找?

一行白鹭上青天

找到谜底，最佳的办法就是亲身去试试

缺点是不坏

听说Atlassian也要裁了。