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Airbnb laid off most of its contractors and postponed summer internships during a Zoom Q&A with the company's CEO

Airbnb announced it was ending most of its temporary workers' contracts early, effectively laying them off, during a weekly Q&A over Zoom on Thursday with CEO Brian Chesky, as first reported by"We are ending Agency Temp contracts early," Airbnb vice president of employee experience Beth Axelrod wrote in an email, according to Protocol, adding: "The expectation is that there will only be a small number of exceptions based on critical business needs.

The company also postponed summer internships and undergraduate hiring until 2021, Protocol reported.Workers in attendance told Business Insider and Protocol that the announcement caught people by surprise, saying many in the meeting, including managers, appeared to not have been made aware of the layoffs beforehand.

 

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