Startup suspended operations, laid off 500 employees by email only for 1 night
The company leased Zirtual virtual assistants officially open in early 2014. Customer service used to be dominated by Zirtual jobs like answering emails, doing reports, market exploration and work schedule. Prices of existing service starting at $ 399 a month. Condolences to employees Zirtua!
Startup suspended operations, laid off 500 employees by email only for 1 night The company leased Zirtual virtual assistants officially open in early 2014. Customer service used to be dominated by Zirtual jobs like answering emails, doing reports, market exploration and work schedule. Prices of existing service starting at $ 399 a month. April this year, next Zirtual notify employees work at the company, they also have 400 virtual assistants and all staff are formal, salaried with benefits under labor law. The company recently raised a total of 5.5 million dollars and mobilized last round took place in July this year. 13 hours before decommissioning, Zirtual still accepting new registrations and collect money. But by midnight, the Facebook, Twitter, Google+ companies have been removed and on the homepage of the company expressed the words: inactivity. More than 1 hour 30 am, Zirtual continue emailing all employees say that the company cease operations and notify immediate effect. Zirtual email sent to customers, the company said were “idle” to reorganize their existing structure.
Everything was too sudden and no one notices or warning signs, according to the staff working here. The company and CEO, Maren Kate Donovan, remained silent and did not comment on this. The staff is very urgent Zirtual and comment in anger: “I, like other Zirtual 500 employees, were shocked to receive an email from CEO Maren Kate Donovan said the company is no longer operating. We also do not know that they have been paid for work last week last, whether we have medical insurance and we are eligible to apply for unemployment yet. We can say company leaders really put us back helpless “. Another staff member said: “It is too cruel to commit to working for a company, is pleased to bring its value to everyone. And then one morning you wake up getting email that everything stops working. I’ve admired her what Maren and build up but now I no longer think of anything she is somewhere now. She had just bought a house and $ 1.8 million still taking money from customers at the weekend. Whether we get paid for work last week, whether our customers get a refund? Still no one knows ” Going back to the situation before the company stopped operations, the staff said the company has grown so fast in the past 18 months. In a previous interview, CEO Maren said the biggest challenge for the company is the development budget. In the past few months the work of the Virtual Assistant is somewhat stagnant but no action from company leadership. For employees, jobs increased and also has an email notification for virtual assistant salary will increase from 11 dollars to 15 dollars an hour. Everybody look at and think: that growth, we are developing. Even without any additional information from the company but the employees of Zirtual have together created a group on Facebook to share information to each other. They are trying to communicate with customers and seek to rebuild their work.
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