The Australian software giant built its reputation as a wealth factory where everyone was happy family. A day of redundancies and relocations changed all that.
Canva is pitched as a place of joy, where staff eat lunch together, clink beers on the roof, turn out for the City2Surf together and bound up the hill for Messina Club.
People work hard, with brutal deadlines to get products ready for its famed Canva Create events but, at the end of the day, the pervading ethos – instilled by its young founders over the past 13 years – is an almost cultish love for the company and colleagues.
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Insiders say Canva’s billionaire co-founders agonised over layoffs for weeks. They now have to try and turn the company around.
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