Austin-based Remedy Applications Inc. earlier this month laid off 82 employees.
The health care startup operates a platform to facilitate doctor house calls and telemedicine appointments, while also running a walk-in clinic inside the Whole Foods Market building at 851 W. Sixth St. Dr. Jeremy Gabrysch launched the company in 2016.
In an Oct. 22 Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, Act notification filed with the Texas Workforce Commission, Remedy indicated it intended to "cease operations in one or more of its operating units." The company said it closed a plant in Austin at 5901 Vega Ave., Suite 100 on Oct. 22.
Remedy is "constantly adjusting to the market," Chief Marketing Officer Keith Munro said in an Oct. 27 email to Austin Business Journal.
"At times this involves expanding our workforce and at times this means adjusting it downward," Munro said. "We had a staff reduction this past week, many of whom were recent hires that had been added during the peak of the COVID-19 volumes during the summer."
Munro said that the layoffs do "not reflect a problem with our core business."
"We remain excited about our ability to help in the transformation of primary care in the United States," Munro said.
Munro declined to comment on Remedy's updated headcount after the layoffs.
There are no bumping rights for the laid off employees and there is no union representing them, according to the WARN letter. The layoffs are expected to be permanent.
Remedy in June hired Tabatha Erck as chief operating officer. Erck previously spent about two years as senior vice president and general manager of Amplifon Hearing Health Care, U.S. subsidiary of Milan, Italy-based Amplifon SpA, the world's largest hearing aid retailer.
And the company in June 2019 announced that it had closed a $10 million funding round led by Austin-based Santé Ventures. Gabrysch was interviewed in March for the Business Journals' Texas Business Minds podcast, where he discussed Remedy's operations during the pandemic and its eventual plans to expand beyond Austin and Dallas to begin operating in Houston and San Antonio.
