{"id":523679,"date":"2022-09-21T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=523679"},"modified":"2022-09-21T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:57:14","slug":"ola-to-cut-200-engineering-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ola-to-cut-200-engineering-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ola to cut 200 engineering jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fresh round of layoffs, cab aggregator and electric two-wheeler manufacturer, Ola has handed over pink slips to 200 of its staff from its 2,000-strong engineering workforce. Most of these staff were working on developing different aspects of apps. The company termed the move as \u201ca restructuring exercise\u201d to minimise redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, the company said, \u201cOla Electric has been increasing its focus on non-software engineering domains with a clear focus on building engineering and R&amp;D capabilities across \u2014 vehicle, cell, battery, manufacturing and automation, autonomous engineering streams and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of these efforts, the company is centralising operations and is undertaking a restructuring exercise to minimise redundancy and build a strong lateral structure that strengthens relevant roles and functions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fresh round of layoffs, cab aggregator and electric two-wheeler manufacturer, Ola has handed over pink slips to 200 of its staff from its 2,000-strong engineering workforce. Most of these staff were working on developing different aspects of apps. The company termed the move as \u201ca restructuring exercise\u201d to minimise redundancy. In a statement on Monday, the company said, \u201cOla Electric has been increasing its focus on non-software engineering domains with a clear focus on building engineering and R&amp;D capabilities across \u2014 vehicle, cell, battery, manufacturing and automation, autonomous engineering streams and others.\u201d \u201cIn light of these efforts, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}