eBay to lay off 800 staff

TechCrunch · Feb 26, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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The latest round of layoffs marks eBay’s third workforce reduction in the past three years.

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In Brief Posted: 7:10 AM PST · February 26, 2026 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images eBay is cutting around 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees. “We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce,” the company said in a statement. “We are grateful for the contributions of the employees impacted and are committed to supporting them with care and respect.” Bloomberg first reported the news. The move comes a week after eBay said it would acquire Depop, a second-hand clothing app popular with Gen Z and millennials, from Etsy for $1.2 billion in cash. eBay last week reported fourth-quarter results, with revenue rising 15% to $3 billion, exceeding analysts’ expectations. This round of layoffs marks the third time eBay has cut jobs in the past three years. In early 2024, it cut 1,000 jobs, or about 9% of its workforce. In early 2023, it laid off about 500 employees, or about 4% of its headcount. Topics Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Latest in Commerce

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eBay will lay off 800 workers, or 6 percent of its staff

eBay announced that it is cutting about 800 jobs from its global staff. "We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce," the retailer said in a statement as reported by Bloomberg. This move will see about 6 percent of eBay's current full-time workers laid off. Bloomberg noted that eBay would continue hiring in "key areas" but did not specify what those fields are. The downsizing follows a week of business updates for eBay. On the same day it shared its latest financial results, the company announced that it would acquire Depop, a consumer-to-consumer secondhand fashion retailer, from Etsy. The Depop purchase carried a $1.2 billion price tag, which could put at least a small dent in the $11.1 billion it reported in 2025 full-year revenue. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/ebay-will-lay-off-800-workers-or-6-percent-of-its-staff-191500844.html?src=rss

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