Anjuna Security faced market downturn in 2022, making tough staffing cuts twice while maintaining company culture through transparency and employee care to eventually rebuild stronger.
San Francisco: Anjuna Security was growing quickly in 2021. The cybersecurity company had about 75 workers helping customers and making sales. Everyone thought the good times would keep going.
But 2022 brought big problems. Companies stopped buying as much software. Anjuna had to let some people go from work. Later, they had to let even more people go. This made the CEO, Ayal Yogev, think hard about what to do next.
Yogev talked about these hard times on a TechCrunch show called Build Mode. He said the company stayed strong because they cared about workers and customers. They told people what was happening right away. They helped workers who left find new jobs and kept their health care going.
After the layoffs, some workers worried about their jobs. But the company asked “What can we learn?” instead of “Who did wrong?” Now Anjuna is hiring more carefully. They only bring in new people when they really need them. They also use computer tools to work better without hiring too many people.