India, April 23 -- Bengaluru-based healthtech SaaS startup HealthPlix fired 100 employees, or 25% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring exercise and annual performance review.

A spokesperson of the startup confirmed the development with Inc42 and said that around 60 employees were let go because of poor performance, while the remaining were impacted due to role redundancies.

"Around 55 to 60 employees were let go because their performance was below par and we had to let them go as part of the annual appraisal cycle," the spokesperson said.

Sources told Inc42 that a majority of the employees who were fired due to performance issues were from the sales department.

While the impacted employees were not put on a performance improve...