Lyft to lay off more than 1,000 employees in cost-cut push
Reuters
Published Apr 27, 2023 12:04PM ET
Updated Apr 27, 2023 04:41PM ET
(Reuters) -Ride-hailing firm Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT) said it will lay off about 1,072 employees, or 26% of its workforce, in one of the first steps by the new Chief Executive David Risher, sending its shares up by about 1% on Thursday.
Risher, who took over earlier this month, had recently said the company will "significantly" cut jobs, without providing the number of jobs that would be affected.
Lyft will also eliminate more than 250 open positions and incur about $41 million to $47 million in costs related to severance and employee benefits in the second quarter, it said in an exchange filing.
Separately, Lyft also said it will eliminate three layers of management from 8 to 5 and divide its rideshare business into three core teams.
It will also take additional costs related to stock-based compensations, which it said cannot be estimated at the time.
The money saved from job cuts will be used to support "service-level improvements" for riders and drivers, Lyft said, promising to offer more details in its first-quarter earnings call on May 4.
This is the second round of job cuts by Lyft, which faces competition from bigger rival Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) Inc in a slowing economy. It had laid off about 683 employees, or 13% of its then workforce, in November.
Coming off pandemic lows, Uber and Lyft are locked in a battle for market share, and investors worry that Lyft's price cuts to avoid being a distant second in the North American ride-sharing market would squeeze its profit.
Lyft's stock closed up 1.5% on Thursday and so far this year has lost 8.8% of its value compared with Uber's 20% gain.
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