{"id":27413,"date":"2022-08-09T12:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1.6545835"},"modified":"2022-08-09T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:22:01","slug":"canadian-tech-company-hootsuite-laying-off-30-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/hootsuite-layoffs-1.6545835?cmp=rss","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tech company Hootsuite laying off 30% of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6545851.1660061579!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_620\/hootsuite-hq.JPG\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Vancouver-based social media company Hootsuite Inc. is laying off 30 per cent of its staff, the latest company to announce layoffs during a current surge in cutbacks in the tech sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is indicative of a change to our business that realigns our strategies with the positions we need to be successful,&#8221; CEO Tom Keiser&nbsp;said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to refocus our strategies to drive efficiency, growth and financial sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to financial data firm Refinitiv,&nbsp;the company currently employs about 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs are the latest in a wave of pink slips in Canadian tech.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/wealthsimple-layoff-markets-1.6489647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WealthSimple&nbsp;laid off 13 per cent<\/a> of its staff, followed by Ottawa-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/shopify-jobs-1.6532165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shopify&nbsp;laying off 10 per cent<\/a> a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver-based&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/vancouver-tech-firm-unbounce-lays-off-47-employees-1.6541758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unbounce laid off 20 per cent of its staff<\/a> earlier this week, followed by e-commerce seller Article announcing it would also be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/article-furniture-layoffs-1.6543130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reducing its head count by about one-sixth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/hootsuite-layoffs-1.6545835?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver-based social media company Hootsuite Inc. is laying off 30 per cent of its staff, the latest company to announce layoffs during a current surge in cutbacks in the tech sector. &#8220;It is indicative&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}