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A mastodon skeleton and Jimmy Wale's clothes left at his ex-girlfriend's apartment just weren't enough to keep eBay from having to cut jobs. Aside from the extended boycott eBay experienced despite ongoing tweaks to its pricing options, the online auction site has cut 125 jobs across its world offices in the U.S., Belgium, Spain and Austria.
This amounts to less than 1% of its global workforce, so the job cuts aren't massive by any stretch of the imagination. But the reasoning behind the job cuts and the subsequent actions to be taken are rather newsworthy. The jobs cut were in the customer support, finance and legal departments, and eBay has trimmed down its workforce in order to begin a centralizing effort for jobs in these areas.