Myntra Plans Job Cuts While Moving Gurugram Operations to Bangalore

Myntra, a leading fashion e-commerce company, is consolidating its operations and laying off workers. The goal of the exercise is to relocate its satellite operations from Gurugram to Bengaluru. While some positions will be eliminated, others will be consolidated into bigger teams centred in Bengaluru. Fifty people from the supplier team in Gurugram would be affected by the layoffs and relocation.

Why Myntra is Moving it Ops to Bangalore?

Teams will be relocated in an effort to improve coordination, streamline internal processes, and centralise operations.  The affected employees would be provided with severance pay, outplacement services, and extended insurance coverage by the Walmart-backed marketplace. Artificial intelligence (AI) deployment and performance have nothing to do with the layoffs and relocation.

The three co-founders of Myntra—Mukkesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, and Vineet Saxena—started the company in 2007 with the goal of creating an online marketplace where independent vendors could offer clothing and accessories. For $240 million, Flipkart bought the Bengaluru-based business in 2014. Net profit for Flipkart's fashion e-commerce division increased by 18 times to INR 548 Cr in FY25, from INR 31 Cr the year before. After coming in at 5,122 Cr in FY24, the company's operational revenue increased to 6,043 Cr, an increase of 18%.

Layoffs Remains a Regular Feature of Startups

This shift is in line with what has been happening more generally in India's startup scene during the last two years. According to media reports, more than 9,500 employees were let go by domestic new-age digital businesses in 2025. These layoffs are a result of automation and an increased emphasis on unit economics.

The conversational AI business Yellow.ai reportedly fired over a hundred workers in December 2025 in response to increasing automation. Roughly 30% of the startup's employees were let go. Also, in the same month, Whatfix, a B2B SaaS company, laid off over 60 workers, most of whom were on the GTM teams for sales and marketing. This year has been no exception. The electric vehicle manufacturer Ola Electric announced plans to lay off 5% of its employees last month.

Amazon has also announced its second round of layoffs in three months. Hence, resulting in the removal of 16,000 positions. Along with other major IT companies like Google and Microsoft, Meta has also laid off hundreds of workers this year. Layoffs.fyi indicates that during the last four years, almost 700,000 jobs have been lost in the tech sector worldwide.