Yandex Market management held a meeting with employees, where they announced plans to reduce the department’s staff and budget. About this I mentioned RBC citing a source in the e-commerce market.
About Yandex’s plans to reduce some employees in Yandex Market and the market budget He said Forbes sources. The publication also contains data from an internal service in which company employees publish appeals to management. Questions have been raised about the potential for market layoffs and redundancy payments.
A Yandex representative in a comment on the posts did not confirm plans to lay off market employees. According to him, the company is “reviewing the team structure to focus resources on key projects.” Yandex said it was abandoning “non-core projects and duplicate functionality,” and the marketing budget would be directed “to what is most important for the market – improving conditions for sellers and special offers for buyers.”
The changes will affect up to 15% of Market’s current employees, but the company plans to “create a rotation within Yandex for the maximum number of people.”
It is not known how many people work at Yandex Market. RBC reports that the total number of Yandex employees in the first quarter of 2026 amounted to 92 thousand people.
In mid-March, Kommersant reported that Yandex might begin closing “certain business areas” and “optimizing” staff in them. According to the publication, the cuts will affect one of the company’s main areas – “research and artificial intelligence services.” They plan to improve the commercial department and individual products, including the Yandex Vzglyad marketing research service. Yandex described Kommersant’s information as incorrect.