Given that VICE’s decision to cut 10 per cent (approximately 250 people) of its workforce made headlines, employees were expecting organisational changes. However, employees said that the scale of layoffs was surprising. “We knew few people would be let go,” says an employee who was let go. Several employees that Newslaundry spoke to confirmed that almost everyone from the video creative team was let go in addition to two members from the editorial team. Employees who have been laid off will work with VICE India until the end of the month or until the completion of their respective projects.