{"id":31968,"date":"2026-02-27T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31968"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:21:00","slug":"ebay-will-lay-off-800-workers-or-6-percent-of-its-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31968","title":{"rendered":"eBay will lay off 800 workers, or 6 percent of its staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">eBay announced that it is cutting about 800 jobs from its global staff. &#8220;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,&#8221; the retailer said in a statement as reported by <em>Bloomberg<\/em>. This move will see about 6 percent of eBay&#8217;s current full-time workers laid off. <em>Bloomberg<\/em> noted that eBay would continue hiring in &#8220;key areas&#8221; but did not specify what those fields are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The downsizing follows a week of business updates for eBay. On the same day it shared its latest financial results, the company announced that it would acquire Depop, a consumer-to-consumer secondhand fashion retailer, from Etsy. The Depop purchase carried a $1.2 billion price tag, which could put at least a small dent in the $11.1 billion it reported in 2025 full-year revenue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/ebay-will-lay-off-800-workers-or-6-percent-of-its-staff-191500844.html?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay announced that it is cutting about 800 jobs from its global staff. &#8220;We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1589,16743,16744,339,4041],"class_list":["post-31968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-ebay","tag-lay","tag-percent","tag-staff","tag-workers","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}