Education Perfect's restructure not a cost-cutting process, says COO

Education Perfect's website says it is a technology company that's become the complete digital teaching and learning toolkit. (Image: Education Perfect)

Riley Kennedy

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

Education Perfect, the Dunedin-founded company valued at nearly half a billion dollars two years ago, is doing a restructuring it says will “maximise” its growth.The plan comes just a month after its now-former chief executive, Alex Burke, left the business.It's understood that staff were given notice last Thursday, followed by a staff-wide call on Friday.Those impacted were given a week to give feedback on the plan.Job cutsHowever, the company, which didn’t directly address the specifics of the restructure, said while sev...

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