UPshow, a Chicago-based digital signage company in the tech industry, laid off an unspecified number of employees in April 2020 as part of broader workforce reductions impacting the local tech sector due to the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The layoffs were reported amid a period of significant uncertainty, reflecting the pandemic's disruptive effect on businesses, though exact figures regarding the scale of the layoffs and the company's total workforce at the time were not detailed in the coverage.