Byju’s fires 500 employees over telephone calls, emails

BENGALURU: Amid a funding crisis and a series of legal battles, troubled edtech firm Byju’s has fired 500 employees, including teachers. Currently, the company has nearly 13,000 employees.

Sources and a few employees that this newspaper spoke to confirmed the layoff and said staff across sales, marketing and tuition centres got laid off. While some employees received emails about the termination, others were fired over phone calls.