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Lazada: Layoffs
Lazada conducting latest round of job cuts as mentioned in Tech in Asia coverage of Southeast Asian e-commerce sector changes
Source: Straits Times Business
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 105.9 (Hot), down 2.3 month-on-month — shows Asia signal flow steady (+0.5pts).
Lazada: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 2 tracked across 1 days.
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