After shutting down operations in 9 cities in January, online grocery delivery startup Grofers is now laying-off 10% of its work-force while retracting job offers given to fresh graduates, reports Livemint. The company’s Human Resource head notified its employees through an email that most lay-offs would take place in the customer support and content teams; exiting employees will receive a one-month severance package, the report added. The company cited “general slowdown in activity” within the grocery delivery business as one of the reason behind the lay-offs, in the email circulated among the employees. MediaNama contacted Sharad Harjai, Assistant Vice President, Marketing at Grofers for a comment, however Harjai refused to comment on the story. “The primary driver of this decision is our changing growth trajectory. We grew at an insane pace last year but given that as of April this year, we have effectively reduced marketing spend next to nothing. We don’t foresee the same growth rates to continue,” said the email, which was reviewed by Mint. Job-offers revoked: The company has retracted 67 job offers in total issued to students from National Institute of Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science and Indian School of Mines in, according to Mint. Earlier on Tuesday, the company revoked job-offers given to 8 students from MNNIT, just 2 days before their joining dates, as indicated by YourStory. Yesterday, Grofers said in a blog post that it has been making some strategic changes within the company, which is intended to benefit customers. The…
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