cut 15% of its workforce, or about 1,300 jobs, and trim base pay for its executive leadership as pandemic-fueled demand for the company’s video conferencing services slows.Shares of the company rose about 9% on the news, after declining 63% last year.
Announcing the layoffs, chief executive Eric Yuan also said he will take a salary cut of 98% for the coming fiscal year, forgoing his fiscal 2023 corporate bonus.
"We worked tirelessly ... but we also made mistakes. We didn’t take as much time as we should have to thoroughly analyze our teams or assess if we were growing sustainably, toward the highest priorities," the top boss said.
The company, which became a household name during lockdowns due to the popularity of its video-conferencing tools, has seen its revenue growth slow.
Analysts are forecasting Zoom’s revenue to have risen just 6.7% in fiscal 2022 after a more than four-fold jump in revenue and a nine-fold surge in profit in 2021. Profit is estimated to have fallen 38% in 2022.