DroneUp layoffs accompany pivot to drone delivery focus

Though clearly still in the early stages of their development and growth, rapidly scaling drone delivery services made the ascending activity seems invulnerable to the layoffs rocking the wider US tech sector – an assumption that Amazon, and now DroneUp are have proven incorrect.

Though Amazon’s recurring woes, setbacks, and staff cuts in its drone delivery operations have been public for some time, this week brought news that Walmart-allied DroneUp is now also carrying out layoffs. Word of the cuts was reported by CNBC on Tuesday, with a version of that story including confirmation from a company official that a limited number of pink slips are being handed out.

The report arose from two DroneUp employees revealing they’d been terminated Monday. It was later learned other dismissals were underway despite the drone company’s expanding delivery activity. 

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