Evernote has laid off most of its workforce. In a statement shared with SFGateBending Spoons, the Milan-based app developer that bought the company last November, announced on Friday that it has laid off almost all Evernote employees in the United States and Chile. Bending Spoons plans to move most of the company’s remaining operations to Europe. The layoffs come less than six months after the company remove 129 positions at Evernote because the app had “not been profitable for years”. Bending Spoons did not say how many employees were affected by this latest round of layoffs. A scan of LinkedIn reveals some software engineers who had worked for Evernote for a few years lost their jobs on Friday.
“Our plans for Evernote are more ambitious than ever: going forward, a growing and dedicated team based in Europe will continue to assume ownership of the Evernote product,” said Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari. SFGate. “This team will also be in an ideal position to leverage the vast expertise and strength of Bending Spoons’ more than 400 employees, many of whom have worked full-time on Evernote since the acquisition.” Ferrari added that Bending Spoons would offer affected employees 16 weeks’ pay, a pro-rated performance bonus and up to a year of health insurance.
How the company plans to make Evernote a success in a market crowded with competitors like Notion And Obsidian Ferrari said nothing. Whatever Bending Spoons has planned for Evernote, there’s no denying that it marks another low point for what was once one of the most popular note-taking apps you could download and an early darling of the note-taking boom. the App Store. Evernote enjoyed a $1 billion valuation at its peak, but a lack of concentration and buggy software have left the company a shell of itself in recent years.
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