Bird lays off up to 5% of workforce

The layoffs were part of Bird’s annual performance review process and only affected U.S.-based employees, TechCrunch has learned. Earlier this month, Bird unveiled its platform to let entrepreneurs manage their own fleet of scooters in New Zealand. Bird Platform is part of Bird’s mission to bring its scooters across the world “and empower local entrepreneurs in regions where we weren’t planning to launch, to run their own electric scooter-sharing program with Bird’s tech and vehicles,” Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden told TechCrunch earlier this month.

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