US EditionAfterpay staff go from surfing retreat to dole queue in just two days
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Jack Dorsey Blindsides Australian Afterpay Staff With Sweeping Job Cuts
Just months after flying thousands of employees to California for a high-profile corporate retreat, Block has cut around 40 per cent of its global workforce in a sweeping redundancy round that has hit Afterpay’s Australian operations particularly hard. In October, chief executive Jack Dorsey hosted about 8000 staff at a three-day event featuring live performances
The giant's parent company of buying now and paying later, Afterpay, has fired half of its Australian staff just two days after taking them to a retreat from the Boujee company, which an employee had just praised as a demonstration that "culture is better than ever." About 200 employees had just returned on Friday from a trip to Lorne, located on Victoria's spectacular Great Ocean Road, when they heard the news through the 628-word statement by …
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