//Yelp CEO Emails Staff to Announce 1,000 Layoffs, 1,100 Furloughs, and Reduced Hours

Yelp CEO Emails Staff to Announce 1,000 Layoffs, 1,100 Furloughs, and Reduced Hours

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