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Bolt: Layoffs
Bolt cut roughly 30% of workforce (~40 staff) in April, eliminated entire HR department, replaced with smaller 'people operations' team as part of AI-centric restructuring
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The leadership read
Workforce moves like this mark the contracting side of the sector hiring conditions.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 105.8 (Hot), down 2.4 month-on-month — shows Americas signal flow rising (+2.4pts).
Bolt: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 3 tracked across 81 days.
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