Major step by Yahoo by laying off 1,000 employees this week

Digital Desk: Yahoo, a forerunner of the early internet era, is the latest major corporation to let off thousands of workers in order to cut costs in an uncertain global economy.

According to Bloomberg, the company will lay off about 1,000 people, or around 12% of its staff.

Reportedly, the corporation will send out emails this week. A business spokesperson also told the publication that the Apollo Global Management-owned company would cut the Yahoo for Business ad tech segment by over 50%, or more than 20%, by the end of 2023.

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone told Axios that the decision to reduce staff will be "tremendously good for Yahoo's overall profitability." Yahoo claims that the company is "extremely lucrative," and that the job losses were due to division restructuring rather than ad market problems.

Yahoo's ad platform, Gemini, will be shut down as part of the reorganisation plan. Yahoo, on the other hand, will outsource work to Taboola, an advertising company that just partnered with Yahoo.

According to reports, the company would also close its advertising division, known as its SSP, or supply-side platform. 

According to the layoff tracker, major behemoths such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce laid off the most people globally last month. Although February is a stronger month than January, many businesses are laying off a huge number of employees.

On the same day that Yahoo announced its plan to reduce its employment, a story claims that Bytedance-owned TikTok is laying off all of its Indian employees, three years after the app was banned in the nation. Other corporations, such as Dell, will lay off 5% of their global workforce, or around 6,650 individuals. 

Most organisations have blamed the layoffs on present economical problems, as well as over-hiring in the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic when work from home increased.

According to reports citing analysts, if the situation does not improve, more computer companies will lay off workers.