EBay Is Laying Off About 800 Workers, 6% of Global Workforce (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/26/1358254/ebay-is-laying-off-about-800-workers-6-of-global-workforce
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-26/ebay-is-laying-off-about-800-workers-6-of-global-workforce
> "We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce," the San Jose, California-based company said early Thursday in a statement. "We are grateful for the contributions of the employees impacted and are committed to supporting them with care and respect."
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> EBay will continue to hire in key areas. The cuts come a week after the company said it would acquire secondhand fashion marketplace Depop for about $1.2 billion in an effort to draw younger shoppers and after it reported robust quarterly results. Revenue increased 15% to $3 billion in the fourth quarter, surpassing analyst estimates.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-26/ebay-is-laying-off-about-800-workers-6-of-global-workforce
Ebay is useless now (Score:2)
I tried to sell and give away some stuff (car equipment) on ebay recently (I've had an account for over 25 years but rarely use it). After a week my 15 posts had number of cumulated views of 0. ZERO. How is that possible ?!? Apparently if you put a start price of 1$ or put up stuff for free, now they simply don't want to show your postings because they won't make enough money off of it I guess. I couldn't even find them by searching the exact text of the title.
They'd rather become some disorganized and ran
well yeah (Score:1)
If they allowed that then everyone would see those listings first, so all the scammers would do that. And don't think that just because ebay handles the money scamming isn't an issue.
Here's an example. There are sellers of what purports to be grey market cameras selling DSLRs for a few hundred under what Amazon sells them for. Now what happens is, after you buy the camera on eBay, they write to you and say, hey we've got it ready to go, but you know, the charger only works in Chinese outlets. If you want, w
Why do they do this? (Score:4, Funny)
> We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities ... We are grateful for the contributions of the employees impacted and are committed to supporting them with care and respect .
In the first place, what does "reinvest across our business" even mean? And how is it relevant in an announcement about laying people off?
Secondly, "align our structure with our strategic priorities" is patronizing windbaggery. Just say "we're changing our business and some current jobs will no longer be required".
Third, don't be "committed" to supporting those laid off - just fucking well do it !
I'm sick of the disgusting, patronizing - there's that word again - language coming out of c-suites. If you're going to axe people, do it as kindly as possible, with as much support as possible when it comes to severance, references, job search assistance, etc. If you directed half the resources you currently expend on bloviating and virtue signalling toward helping those displaced, the world would be a better place for it. Stop embarrassing yourselves by kissing your own asses.
Re: (Score:2)
I read that and was simultaneously laughing and angry. I'd call it a load of horseshit, but that would be insulting to horseshit.
What a bunch of windbaggery. Meaningless, feckless corporate speak.
We know. They know we know. We know they know we know. They don't care.
Nothing says "fuck you" like a "well worded" press release. It was only missing the AI EM-DASH.
Say what? (Score:2)
"align its workforce with strategic priorities" - didn't we just read the other day that Amazon was laying off what, 30k, for *exactly* the same alleged reasons?
So, revenue is down, and the CEO wants more ROI? How about we skip to the other story today, and let eBay employees create a chatbot clone of their CEO, and *replace* him with the chatbot?
EBay? (Score:2)
Wow, I'm glad eBay is not affected.
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
And the First Post Pedantry award goes to...