A message to our customers, partners, and extended community
We are more determined than ever as the DAP market leader to build a strong, sustainable business, even as we face strong macroeconomic headwinds. The path to profitability and long-term growth is paved with difficult decisions that we need to make in order to ensure our collective success.
We took actions this week to create a leaner, more efficient organization that better reflects our near-term growth expectations, while setting us on a path to profitability and long-term growth. We have made the painful decision to reduce our workforce by 112 employees, representing approximately 10% of our organization, in order to meet our current business needs, better equip us for future scale, and deliver the utmost value to our customers.
We will continue to innovate and deliver the value expected as the DAP leader.
This means that some of our team members who have helped build this company and bring it to where it is today will be leaving us. This is a difficult week in WalkMe’s history, and not a decision I have taken lightly.
I know how incredibly difficult it is for those impacted and also how it affects everyone who remains who have to part with their friends and colleagues.
We cannot ignore the macroeconomic headwinds facing us and our customers right now. We built an organization based on market assumptions that are now very different from the economic reality we and many others find ourselves in. I take full responsibility for decisions that have now led us to the thoughtful yet difficult actions required to drive success.
I want to assure you, our long-term strategy is unchanged. DAP is an inevitability. We believe it will become the standard for how enterprises overcome the massive friction created by tech overload.
The DAP category is at a tipping point, and the opportunity ahead is massive. We are weeks away from one of our most exciting product launches of the year, giving customers the visibility they need to make more informed choices when optimizing software spend. And WalkMe is well positioned to be an essential player as generative AI transforms the way we interact with software.
To our customers, partners, and extended community, WalkMe remains well-resourced to deliver on our commitments to you. Our team is wholly focused on building great products, meeting the unique scalability, security, and support demands of the enterprise, connecting you with the largest network of DAP professionals, and going to market together with partners to solve our joint customers’ biggest challenges. You are in good hands.
These changes will help ensure WalkMe’s continued leadership in the DAP category, make us a leaner, more efficient business on the path to profitability, and better enable us to scale as the macroeconomic environment improves, customer needs evolve, and the category accelerates.
We are excited to continue on that journey with you.
Dan
Forward-Looking Statements
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