Stripe, the Bay Area’s second most valuable startup, emailed a layoff notice to 300 workers - along with a cartoon picture. Is this the way to handle layoffs?

A cute cartoon duck can be the bearer of bad news. Stripe is laying off 300 people, or about 3.5% of its global workforce — and in emails to some terminated employees, the company accidentally sent an ...

Usually, these notices are pretty standard—heavy on the legal wording, and light on the cartoons. But that wasn't the case at Stripe, a payments software company that laid off 300 employees on ...

On Monday, Stripe sent out termination notices via email to 300 of its employees, making up about 3.5% of its workforce, along with an image of a cartoon duck. @aseoconnor/X On Monday, Stripe sent ...

The payments-software company Stripe accidentally emailed an image of a cartoon duck to some employees when notifying them that they had been laid off, Business Insider has learned. The company ...

a spokesperson confirmed to CNN — and in emails to some terminated employees on Monday, the company accidentally sent an image of a yellow cartoon duck, adding awkward insult to injury.