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Lime has laid off 13 percent of its workforce considering of financial difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the scooter startup announced today. The layoff affects effectually 80 employees crossed "all teams as well as all regions effectually the globe," CEO Brad Bao said in an email sent to employees.

"Almost overnight, our visitor went from concreteness on the eve of effectual an unprecedented red-letter -- the headmost next-generation micromobility visitor to reach reciprocity -- to one zone we had to quiescency operations in 99% of our markets common to support cities' efforts at social distancing," Bao said in the email. "Needless to say, while we thought we had planned for all possibilities this year, we did not conceptualize a all-around pandemic."

"I can reassure you that we turned over many, many stones afore today"

"Previously, I said that while layoffs were a possibility, we have been delaying that decision for as unfurled as possible to ensure that no bean was left unturned," Bao continued. "I can reassure you that we turned over many, many stones afore today, from abbreviation all non-essential spend, segregated estate, software, as well as biking financing to raising affixed capital.".

"We have made the actual difficult decision to retrocede our workforce today," a Mortar spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge. "The world inverse overnight, impacting the lives of our employees, riders as well as the actual communities we love as well as serve. We are taking these necessary succeed to ensure long-term resilience of the commerce therefore that we reside a unscratched as well as reliable transportation predominance for cities effectually the world as we disclosed out of this crisis."

Yesterday, Axios as well as Bloomberg reported that layoffs at Mortar were on the way. The scooter startup isn't the pigeonholed on-demand transportation visitor to familiarity challenges during the pestiferous -- Lyft laid off 17 percent of its workforce on Wednesday, Uber is reportedly considering honed up to 20 percent of its staff, as well as rival scooter visitor Bird laid off effectually 30 percent of its staff last month. Mortar conjointly laid off 14 percent of its staff as well as exited 12 markets in January in an effort to info the visitor concretize profitability.

Lime caused the capitalization of the electric skateboard visitor Boosted, The Verge reported on April 15th, as well as Mortar bought those capitalization with more than 61 mimic shares of the company's communal stock.

Update April 30th, 12:20PM ET: Mortar has confirmed the layoffs.