TinyOwl Cuts Down Over 100 Employees, Shrinks Operations To Turn Profitable!

TinyOwl, the online food ordering company has taken a decision on Tuesday that to remove the employees for the reconstruction of the organization. In an official declaration, the company said that “it has undergone an organizational restructuring to increase its efficiency and productivity, involving eliminations of certain positions from the company, as part of this process”.

TinyOwl Dismissed Staff Decreases Operations to Turn Profitable

The start-up promoted by Tinyowl Technology Pvt. Ltd. said, “it would be scaling back nationally, and continue to operate in all six cities where it is currently present. A new model will be initially tested in Mumbai and Bengaluru”.

Harshvardhan Mandad, the company’s co-founder said that “The current strategic focus for us as a company is to build TinyOwl as a sustainable, profitable and scalable business, working towards the ‘big dream’. With the current take rate being 45-60, we are looking at a more commensurate operational structure.”

Earlier in Pune Office the company was closed and removed all the 30 employees over there. Three employees at the Pune office said that the company plans to close its offices in Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai as well and limit itself to Mumbai and Bengaluru.

One employee from the Pune team said that “Everything was running smoothly until mid-September, when one of the founders came to the office and said that there is a huge crunch and we cannot sustain so many employees. They dismissed 15 employees then.”

As of September, the company processed 10,000 orders a day. It works with around 150 chefs and registered 500 orders a day with the average transaction value being Rs.25.

“They are playing with our careers. They hired and put in place a Pune team in March and now they are asking us to resign and are giving us no information on notice period, compensation and other exit formalities,” said one of the employees.

In Mumbai, TinyOwl has around 200 employees. Moreover, the company on 2 November canceled a town hall meeting to discuss fund-raising and the way forward.

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