In an email sent to the entire workforce of San Francisco-based reviews-and-ratings platform Yelp, its co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced that by this afternoon, over 2,100 employees would be left without a job, while others would have their hours (and, presumably, pay) cut.
The message was also posted to Yelp’s blog. In it, Stoppelman wrote that as a result of the coronavirus crisis, “interest in restaurants, our most popular category, has dropped 64 percent since March 10, and the