Open source developer platform GitHub has laid off its entire engineering team in India, its second largest developer community after the US, which affected more than 140 employees as part of the "reorganisation plan".
The company said in a statement that "we will, in the normal course of our operations, redeploy resources".
Meanwhile, US automaker Ford Motors has announced it will eliminate 3,800 jobs over the next three years in Europe to restructure its business, creating a leaner, more competitive cost structure.
Once the employees arrived at the conference room -- some as early as 7.30 a.m. -- they were told by their managers that they were being fired.
