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Shopify is now 20 percent smaller.

The e-commerce giant is downsizing again, cutting around 20 percent of its 11,600-strong workforce after Flexport takes over its logistics business.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke in a blog post announcing the change:

After today Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics; this means some of you will leave Shopify today.

Shopify has only recently finished laying off around 1,000 employees.

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