US-based financial technology company Affirm lays off 19% of workforce

US-based financial technology company Affirm has laid off 19 per cent of its workforce, the company announced in its second-quarter earnings report.

“We are reducing the size of our team by 19 per cent. This was the single most difficult decision I have had to make since Affirm’s founding, but I believe it is the right one. I take full responsibility for it and the actions that led us to this point,” Founder & CEO Max Levchin wrote in a message.

Levchin further said that during the early part of the pandemic, the company “consciously hired ahead of the revenue required to support the size of the team”, with revenue growth justifying the strategy.