In October 2022, the US-based AI and sales intelligence platform 6sense conducted a significant workforce reduction, laying off approximately 150 employees globally. This figure represented about 10 percent of its total workforce. The cuts, executed over a few days, impacted teams across content, design, video editing, product, sales, marketing, and engineering, including staff at its offices in Bengaluru and Pune, India. Employees were informed via brief Zoom calls with managers and HR, citing an uncertain macroeconomic environment and a difficult third quarter for the SaaS industry as the primary reasons. The company, backed by investors like Y Combinator and Tiger Global, framed the layoffs as a necessary cost-cutting measure amid broader market challenges.
