Sonos’ issues continue to grow worse, as the company announced laid off 100 employees early Wednesday morning. Sonos has been struggling with a botched app update, one that left users with less features, poorer performance, and more bugs than the original. The issues were severe enough that Sonos CEO Patrick Spence penned a blog post apologizing for the issues and promising a fix.

Sonos Laid Off 100 Employees

Sonos has laid off approximately 100 of its employees, which is a mere 14 months after the beleaguered smart home audio company dropped roughly 150 of its 1,800 workforce. The timing of this comes after product delays plus the well-documented (and disastrous) rollout of the Sonos app, not to mention the company's earnings call last week, in which we're sure investors demanded accountability.

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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirms 100-person layoff

“We made the difficult decision to say goodbye to approximately 100 team members representing 6% of the company. This action was a difficult, but necessary, measure...

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirms 100-person layoff

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