Cloud whiz served at Google, Delta Electronics and Taipei City Government
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/01/03
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A total of 80 percent of staff at Hope Bay Technologies Inc., founded by CEO
80% of staff at Ben Jai’s Hope Bay Technologies face layoffs: reports.(By Central News Agency)
and cloud whiz Ben Jai, were losing their job ahead of the Lunar New Year, reports said Tuesday.
Jai has achieved the status of a key innovator due to his work as a workshop instructor and later advisor to the administration of Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je.
However, media reports emerging Tuesday said his company was threatened by bankruptcy and financial insolvency and was laying off about 80 percent of its more than 110 employees immediately, with their final salary payments dated Tuesday.
Only the members of two taskforces, whose function was not precisely described, would still continue to work, reports said.
Before founding Hope Bay, Jai served as engineering manager for Google and as a top official at the cloud technology center at Taiwan’s Delta Electronics. [FULL STORY]
