LinkedIn will lay off approximately 960 employees, or roughly 6% of its workforce, across its global sales and talent acquisition areas, CEO Ryan Roslansky revealed in an email to employees, which was shared publicly.
He stressed that these are the only layoffs the company is planning.
Roslansky said some roles in its global sales organization are no longer needed as LinkedIn evolves the ways that it works with talent media customers and small businesses, adding that the company will unify its currently separate talent media businesses within LinkedIn Marketing Solutions and LinkedIn Talent Solutions in order to avoid duplicating costly platforms, systems and tools internally.
Serving small businesses is also shifting to online from a field sales team.
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