WeWork chairman Marcelo Claure told staff he's trying to clean up WeWork, after firing 13 people for abusing vendor policies

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• WeWork chairman Marcelo Claure said in a Thursday night memo to staff obtained by Business Insider that 13 employees were fired for abusing its vendor selection and management processes.
• Claure is drawing a clear line between how WeWork operated in the past and its future under SoftBank, emphasizing that he's building "a strong culture of compliance." 
• He also said layoffs will be finished in the next several weeks. 
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WeWork chairman Marcelo Claure told staff in a memo sent Thursday evening that the company had fired 13 employees after investigating policy abuse.

In the memo, Claure said employees from two regions – Latin America as well as US, Canada, and Israel, which the company groups together – were terminated for abusing "vendor selection and management processes." 

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