'Then, out of nowhere, came a global crisis the likes of which no one has ever seen. Now, we simply don't know when or even if we’ll be able to reopen again.'
In an all-hands meeting on Friday morning, Wing co-founders Lauren Kassan and Audrey Gelman announced that the women’s co-working-space-meets-social-club will lay off nearly all of its hourly employees and half of its corporate staff, saying that 95 percent of revenue had disappeared overnight.
"A few weeks ago we were talking about which locations we were going to be opening next," Gelman said."Then, out of nowhere, came a global crisis the likes of which no one has ever seen. Now, we simply don't know when or even if we’ll be able to reopen again." "Our only path forward is to make significant and painful cuts, layoffs and furloughs to prevent The Wing from closing as a business," Kassan said."We are so very sorry about this. We now face the unimaginable and deeply painful outcome of having to lay off almost all of our space teams, and half of our headquarters," they added.
Workers at The Wing have described it as something less than utopian—"I was treated like a human kitty-litter box," one told the"As someone who is fully aware of where The Wing gets their funding ie billionaires and millionaires like Sequoia Capital and Google Ventures, I know that these hard cuts are meant to keep Audrey and Lauren's business afloat," an employee at The Wing told Motherboard.
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