The season of layoffs continues as another tech company has fired 200 employees from their team in order to cut costs. Medibuddy which is an end-to-end digital health platform have fired around 8% of their employees which is about 200 people across all departments as reorganization takes places 

 “We had to part with 8 percent of the workforce across all departments as a one-time restructuring exercise and eliminated any redundancy in roles and responsibilities ‘. As conveyed by a medibuddy executive in conversation with IANS

The startup have stated that layoffs are never easy and is always a painful process  However this was necessary to realign their current business goals for longer term

Headcount reductions primarily impacted engineering, product, sales, and operations teams.The startup said it would support affected employees during this transition and implemented various resources to support them.

The company’s spokesperson have conveyed that “This includes out-placement assistance that will actively assist impacted employees in identifying potential job opportunities, a care package designed for them that includes MediBuddy wallet continuity for their health and wellness, and extension of health insurance,

Medibuddy is a healthcare startup which provides services related to healthcare. It provides 24/7 access to doctors via video call, delivery of medicine, mental health support and much more. The digital healthcare startup have also launched several beneficiary lead such as home sample pickup blood test, RT-PCR test, covid vaccination and etc 

The startup had raised $125 million last year in feb in its series C funding from Quadria capital and Lightrock India.