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After two rounds of job cuts last year, PayPal is shedding staff once again.

PayPal Holdings Inc. is cutting staff again, announcing plans to lay off 2,000 people, or 7% of its workforce.

The San Jose-based company is making the cuts in response to the"challenging macro-economic environment," CEO Dan Schulman said in"While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do," he said in the letter."We must continue to change as our world, our customers and our competitive landscape evolve.

PayPal spokeswoman Caitlin Girouard didn't respond when asked how many of the company's cuts would be in the Bay Area. Asked for comment about the layoffs, Girouard pointed to Schulman's letter.forecast a disappointing holiday quarter . At the time, acting finance chief Gabrielle Rabinovitch blamed the expected results on higher inflation, slowing growth in e-commerce sales and the tough economic environment. The fourth-quarter holiday shopping season is crucial for the company, because it's typically PayPal's most lucrative of the year.

The layoffs also follow the $2 billion stake Elliott Investment Management took in PayPal last summer. Since then, the activist firm has beenThe mass workforce reduction is only the latest in a series of job cuts at the company. PayPal told state employment officials last fall it was

 

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