Stripe, the Bay Area’s second most valuable startup, emailed a layoff notice to 300 workers - along with a cartoon picture.

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Stripe employees were sent PDF of a cartoon duck alongside their notice of role termination in a baffling HR mistake.

A cute cartoon duck can be the bearer of bad news. Stripe is laying off 300 people, or about 3.5% of its global workforce — and in emails to some terminated employees, the company accidentally sent an ...

Stripe laid off 300 employees, equivalent to around 3.5% of its workforce, on Monday, with most of the roles in the product, engineering, and operations departments.

The error, confirmed by a Stripe spokesperson, occurred during the company’s internal process of notifying impacted employees ...

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But that wasn't the case at Stripe, a payments software company that laid off 300 employees on Monday. Some employees in the ...

(CNN) — A cute cartoon duck can be the bearer of bad news. Stripe is laying off 300 people, or about 3.5% ... of the duck were first reported by Business Insider. The layoffs are part of an ...