New Delhi: With COVID-19 negatively impacting the outdoor entertainment business in India, BookMyShow has laid off 200 employees to mitigate the monetary influence of the pandemic from the corporate’s books.
Ashish Hemrajani, CEO and Co-founder of Bigtree Entertainment Pvt Ltd, the guardian firm of BookMyShow, mentioned in a tweet, “COVID-19 has taught me many lessons & I learnt another one today. As we let go of 200 of the most incredibility talented & performance-driven individuals, each & everyone has messaged, thanking me for the opportunity, the love for @bookmyshow and asking me if they could help me in any way possible.”
In a sequence of tweets, Hemraj pointed the woes BookMyShow is at the moment confronted with. “These 200 folks were handpicked & curated over years and had surrounded themselves with the highest values of culture, performance and empathy. As the day passed, I had two thoughts, one of managing optics or two – just doing the right thing,” he added.
The CEO of BookMyShow additionally identified that he’s going to offer help to the affected employees find new jobs. In one among his tweets, he urged Twitterati to replace him with obtainable job alternatives. Also Read: BookMyShow unveils streaming service: Here’s all you must know
“And for me, finding each of them a new home, where a new journey can begin, was the easy choice. So if you have leads, please DM me & we will do the needful. They will contribute incredibly to the growth of your wonderful firms. I`m sure we will all come out stronger,” he mentioned.
The on-line ticketing platform had final yr laid off 270 employees throughout its places of work in India and globally as a result of ongoing COVID-19 disaster. Also Read: Hyderabad techie turns vegetable vendor after lay-off amid coronavirus lockdown, Sonu Sood provides job
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