NewsBreak: WeWork CEO Stepping Down – Report

NewsBreak: WeWork CEO Stepping Down – Report

Sep 24, 2019

: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is stepping down as CEO in the wake of the company’s delayed IPO, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

  • Neumann was pressured by board members to give up his post, but will remain nonexecutive chairman of WeWork parent We Co., the Times said, citing a person briefed on the decision.
  • Current executives Sebastian Gunningham and Artie Minson will serve as interim co-chief executives, the Times reported.
  • WeWork also may lay off as many as 5,000 employees, a third of its workforce, in an effort to cut costs, The Information reported Tuesday.
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