FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a Grab office in Singapore March 26, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Grab, Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing and food delivery firm, does not envisage having to undertake mass layoffs as some rivals have done, and is selectively hiring, while reining in its financial service ambitions.
Chief Operating Officer Alex Hungate said that earlier in the year, Grab had been worried about a global recession and was "very careful and judicious about any hiring", and as a result, it had not got to the "desperate" point of a hiring freeze or mass layoffs.
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