Dubai’s Careem says no more layoffs, hires engineers for tech hubs

Dubai’s Careem says no more layoffs, hires engineers for tech hubs

Ride hailing app Careem says it is not currently planning more employee layoffs as it makes the shift to remote working permanent.During a LinkedIn Live event to announce its new ‘remote first' policy, co-founder and CEO Mudassir Sheikha, said that there would not be more layoffs to accompany the move.“We are hiring aggressively,” he said in response to questions from viewers, adding that the company had 100 vacancies on its web page, many of them for engineers, for tech hubs in Dubai, Berlin and Pakistan, with potential to expand to other territories.“Our view is that we are still at two percent of the addressable opportunities, we still have a long way to go to keep growing that business to become a bigger part of people's lives. Now we have launched