Flock Safety offers voluntary buyouts as surveillance backlash reaches its workforce

Flock Safety, a 1,500-person surveillance technology company, expects significant interest and could turn to layoffs if too few employees leave voluntarily.

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Primary source: TechCrunch

Why it matters

The buyouts put Garrett Langley's workforce strategy under scrutiny while Flock Safety faces customer losses, higher vandalism costs and questions about whether voluntary departures can avert layoffs.

Three diverse professionals in a modern office appear thoughtful and concerned, one looking pensive while others engage in quiet conversation.

Garrett Langley built Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, around a conviction that better evidence could help police solve crimes. Nine years later, the founder is asking employees to decide whether they still want to help carry that mission through a widening customer, privacy and morale crisis.…

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