The financial technology company said last week that it would cut about 10% of its roughly 5,000 workers to trim costs after a loss of $487 million last year.
that included a Google spreadsheet listing hundreds of the laid-off workers by name, with the goal of connecting them to recruiters and helping them find new jobs.
Publication of the document drew mixed, and heated, replies, with at least two critics calling him"tone deaf." Others questioned the wisdom of sharing email addresses in a public document, leading J. Tyler Wilson, the Klarna employee who put it together, to delete the email column from the document. Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna Bank, at the IFGS 2022 summit at the Guildhall in London, U.K., on Monday, April 4, 2022. Yet others applauded Siemiatowski's efforts to help former workers find new employment. Employees whose names appeared on the list signed up for it voluntarily, and its content is not owned or managed by the company, Klarna said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch.
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