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Chegg announces move to reduce workforce by 22% as students turn to AI
Date:
Tue, 13 May 2025 12:08:00 +0000
Description:
Chegg has blamed AI for poor financial performance during its first quarter
of 2025, with drastic cost-cutting measures confirmed.
FULL STORY
Online learning platform Chegg has announced plans to lay off around 22% of
its workforce 248 employees to cut costs and streamline operations.
The news was bundled with the announcement of a less-than-ideal 30% drop in
quarterly revenue, with the company generating $121.4 million in its first
fiscal quarter.
Chegg has seen declining web traffic for months, and it`s expected that this
trend could even worsen in the short term, hence the decision to take drastic
measures and lay off more than a fifth of its current workforce.
Chegg blames AI for drop in revenue, layoffs
In its earnings post , Chegg CEO Nathan Schultz blamed Google`s
implementation and expansion of AI Overviews for its continued dominance in
the search market (something that the US Department of Justice has already
complained about) and the interest in its Gemini AI chatbot.
Schultz also noted that OpenAI has launched free subscriptions to ChatGPT
Plus for college students, with Anthropic also following a similar path,
putting Chegg`s business at risk.
Despite announcing two restructurings in 2024, the company is being forced to
take things further by closing physical offices across the US and Canada by
the end of 2025. The company will also be "limiting [its] upper funnel
marketing, reducing new product development efforts, and finally cutting
[its] general and administrative expenses."
The 248 roles at risk are predominantly "concentrated in the US and Canada,"
with Chegg Study and corporate services seeing the biggest redundancies of
66%.
The company hopes to save an additional $45-55 million in 2025 on top of the
$120 million in savings it predicts from its 2024 restructuring efforts.
Further savings of $100-110 million, impacted by the most recent cost-cutting
events, are expected for 2026.
CFO David Longo added: "Looking ahead, industry challenges continue to cause
a notable decline in traffic and subscriber acquisitions."
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/chegg-announces-move-to-reduce-workforce-by-22-p
ercent-as-students-turn-to-ai
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