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Babylon Health furloughed 140 people. I think they're using this as an excuse to re-structure their organisation. The tagline is that they are furloughing 5% of

Babylon Health furloughed 140 people. I think they're using this as an excuse to re-structure their organisation. The tagline is that they are furloughing 5% of staff. They've used it as an opportunity to make 30% of their mobile engineers redundant, as well as push many senior engineers on higher salaries towards the exit

esel2k 6y ago
So also here healthtech startup letting people go?! Why? I thought you guys would get more business in these times?!
- eightysixfour 6y ago
  Not unless they directly impact COVID work. Hospitals are laying people off and asking people to take pay cuts.
- rk06 6y ago
  That's a false statement. My sister is a doctor. She told me that she is getting less patients, as only those are very serious, are coming. Plus transport system is down, so only ambulance can be used for transporting patients to and from hospital. So this puts a limit to hospital's income source.
  - esel2k 6y ago
    But what about telehealth?
    - rabidonrails 6y ago
      you don't need to go to _your_ doctor for a telehealth appointment. Many insurers are recommending particular telehealth solutions that they have contracted with which means that the normal doctor you _would_ have gone to see is seeing less people.
killvenom 6y ago
This is news-worthy. They are mentioned on the BBC as hiring during COVID.
mehh 6y ago
cough ... React Native ...
forgotmylogin2 6y ago
Can you explain more about why you think they would need an excuse to re-structure? If they thought their senior engineers were getting paid too much, what was stopping them from cutting their salaries before the pandemic?
- sh87 6y ago
  I suspect legal liability to be a big factor. I imagine, for a manager to get rid of someone on performance grounds needs heck a lot more work and time than getting on the company wide blanket firing bandwagon. "We hate to let you go but we have no options in these challenging times" gets less opposition from employees and more legal stance over any performance related reason. Sad.
ng3gviDp8oRA2a 6y ago
They are actually FIRING many more. See https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Babylon-Health-Reviews-E1338681.htm?sort.sortType=RD&sort.ascending=false https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Babylon-Health-Reviews-E...

esel2k 6y ago

So also here healthtech startup letting people go?! Why? I thought you guys would get more business in these times?!

eightysixfour 6y ago
Not unless they directly impact COVID work. Hospitals are laying people off and asking people to take pay cuts.
rk06 6y ago
That's a false statement. My sister is a doctor. She told me that she is getting less patients, as only those are very serious, are coming. Plus transport system is down, so only ambulance can be used for transporting patients to and from hospital. So this puts a limit to hospital's income source.
- esel2k 6y ago
  But what about telehealth?
  - rabidonrails 6y ago
    you don't need to go to _your_ doctor for a telehealth appointment. Many insurers are recommending particular telehealth solutions that they have contracted with which means that the normal doctor you _would_ have gone to see is seeing less people.

killvenom 6y ago

This is news-worthy. They are mentioned on the BBC as hiring during COVID.

mehh 6y ago

cough ... React Native ...

forgotmylogin2 6y ago

Can you explain more about why you think they would need an excuse to re-structure? If they thought their senior engineers were getting paid too much, what was stopping them from cutting their salaries before the pandemic?

sh87 6y ago
I suspect legal liability to be a big factor. I imagine, for a manager to get rid of someone on performance grounds needs heck a lot more work and time than getting on the company wide blanket firing bandwagon. "We hate to let you go but we have no options in these challenging times" gets less opposition from employees and more legal stance over any performance related reason. Sad.

ng3gviDp8oRA2a 6y ago

They are actually FIRING many more. See https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Babylon-Health-Reviews-E1338681.htm?sort.sortType=RD&sort.ascending=false https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Babylon-Health-Reviews-E...