2022年11月11日

2022年11月11日星期五:Meta的标志出现在瑞士达沃斯。一位分析师说，裁员预计将在科技公司中继续，同时也会蔓延到新的行业。-路透社纽约报道:即将进行首次公开募股(IPO)的科技公司正通过裁员来应对日益恶化的经济前景，这些公司的裁员行动往往比那些更知名的上市公司早得多。Stripe、Chime Financial和Gopuff等初创公司都是近期宣布裁员的ipo候选者之一。他们加入了Meta平台公司等知名科技巨头的行列，该公司宣布了公司历史上第一轮大规模裁员，Twitter公司和Salesforce公司也在裁员。尽管最近受到了关注，但几个月来，处于ipo前阶段的公司一直在裁员。今年大部分时间，新股发行市场都处于关闭状态，迫使那些一直在扩大上市规模的公司改变了计划。例如，Cybereason Inc .在6月份裁员约10%。据报道，Peloton Interactive公司的竞争对手Tonal Systems公司在7月份裁减了35%的员工。据报道，Instacart公司在夏末裁掉了数千名员工。 “Let’s say you believe you have an IPO coming in 18 months and all of a sudden that IPO is 36 months away,” said Barrett Daniels, IPO services co-leader at Deloitte & Touche. “You’ll see companies make corrections just because the timing of a significant event in their journey gets pushed out a little.” Just 119 companies have successfully priced US IPOs this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg that excludes blank-cheque vehicles. That’s a 75% decrease from this point in 2021 and on track for the fewest new listings in a year since 2009. Waves of volatility and weaker valuations have deterred many issuers, and it remains to be seen when the window to go public will reopen in earnest. In the meantime, the job cuts are expected to continue among technology firms, while also spreading to new industries, said Heather Gates, who oversees Deloitte’s emerging growth company business and its private company audit team. “I don’t think it’s over,” Gates said in an interview. “Once the impact of increased costs, inflation is reflected in public company earnings and behaviours, and until that works its way through all of the industries, I don’t think we’re done.” — Bloomberg Article type: free