WeWork to slash global workforce by 20%

Company to lay off 2,400 people as it pares costs to shore up earnings

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Laid-off WeWork employees exit the company's headquarters in New York. © Reuters

YUMIKO OSHIMA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- Troubled shared-office provider WeWork is cutting 2,400 jobs worldwide, equivalent to a fifth of its workforce, it was learned Thursday.

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