Tech’s pandemic hiring boom continues to bust as Plaid adds to layoffs

Tech’s pandemic hiring boom continues to bust as Plaid adds to layoffs

Zach Perret, CEO and co-founder of Plaid, speaks through the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on Jan. 31, 2020. George Frey | Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos Fintech company Plaid is laying off about 260 personnel, adding to a recent wave of cuts from personal tech organizations. CEO Zach

Buy and bust: After Platinum Health took control of Noble sites, all hospital workers were fired

Buy and bust: After Platinum Health took control of Noble sites, all hospital workers were fired

The news, under Noble Health letterhead, arrived at 5:05 p.m. on a Friday, with the subject line: “Urgent Notice.” Audrain Community Hospital, Paul Huemann’s workplace of 32 years, was letting workers go. Word travels fast in a small town. Huemann’s wife, Kym, first heard the bad news in the car when a friend who’d gotten the letter, too,