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TripActions CEO Defends Controversial Layoffs Strategy

Matthew Parsons

Photo Credit: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen has defended his move to announce wide-scale redundancies via video conference TripActions

Skift Take

Ariel Cohen’s decision to fire 100 employees during a video conference is controversial, but might also reflect the new reality of remote workforce management.

Marketing, events, and recruitment departments fell on the sword at one of the fastest growing corporate travel technology companies this week. And the coronavirus crisis also put a halt to TripActions’ ambitious plan to double in size this year, its CEO told Skift. On Tuesday, Ariel Cohen took to video conferencing to lay off some 100 employees as part of a wider cull of almost 300 staff. This controversial method attracted criticism on social media, but Cohen said there was no other choice.

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