Recent events
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2020
OYO offers discounts to students taking entrance exams
OYO offered discounts on its app and website to students appearing for national and state-level entrance exams in India.
2020
Oyo and Unilever partner on sanitised stays
Oyo said it was partnering with Unilever for its sanitised stays initiative. Unilever's home and personal hygiene brands will be used to clean and disinfect Oyo properties, with the partnership beginning in India and then expanding to other stated markets.
2020
OYO and Unilever announce global hygiene partnership
OYO Hotels & Homes announced a global partnership with Unilever for sanitisation and cleanliness requirements at OYO properties. The partnership will begin in India and then extend across other markets.
2020
OYO appoints a new China CEO
OYO appointed Gautam Swaroop as CEO of its China business. The article reports that he had recently joined OYO and that the appointment had not yet been formally announced.
2020
OYO announces Sanitised Stays
OYO announced the launch of Sanitised Stays, a minimal-contact hotel guest experience involving revised check-in and check-out processes, social distancing measures, and hygiene audits. OYO said it planned to implement the measures in 1,000 hotels within 10 days in the first phase.
2020
OYO appoints Troy Alstead to its board
OYO Hotels & Homes announced the appointment of Troy Alstead, formerly Starbucks Corporation's COO, as an independent member of its board of directors.
2020
Oyo pledges free accommodation for frontline workers and stranded people
Oyo pledged to offer free accommodation to coronavirus frontline workers and foreigners stranded overseas. Its founder and CEO said selected hotel and homestay sites would be designated for frontline workers and some would be repurposed as isolation rooms. The article also notes criticism over Oyo's treatment of hotel owners, but reports no finding on those complaints.
2020
OYO announces self-isolation accommodation initiative
OYO announced its “Book A Night for Self-isolation” initiative to provide affordable pay-per-use self-quarantine accommodation. The article said OYO had already opened properties in Mumbai, Gurugram, Pune, Hyderabad and Noida.
2020
Apollo Hospitals partners with hotel and service brands for isolation facilities
Apollo Hospitals partnered with Lemon Tree Hotels, Ginger Hotels, OYO and Zomato for Project Stay I, an initiative providing medically supervised isolation and quarantine facilities. The article says the first phase launched with around 500 rooms and that Apollo planned to scale the capacity to as many as 5,000 rooms.
2020
OYO responds to China layoff reports
OYO said its strategic adjustments began at the end of the previous year and continued into early 2020, and that the China changes had been delayed by the pandemic. It did not confirm the reported number of layoffs.
2020
OYO reports plans for global workforce cuts
OYO was reported to be planning to cut about 5,000 jobs globally, with China accounting for the largest share; the report said the cuts were planned in China, the United States, and India.
2020
OYO dismisses EGM department employees in China
OYO employees said they were informed on March 3 that the EGM department had been dissolved; the article reports that the department was fully laid off, including employees in Hubei.
2020
OYO lays off employees in China amid wage arrears allegations
OYO employees told a reporter that they were required to terminate their employment on March 3 and that more than 300 dismissed employees were owed wages. The article also reports plans to reduce about 60% of OYO's China workforce.
2020
OYO conducts layoffs in India and China
The article reports that OYO cut staff in China and India and planned additional layoffs in India. An OYO employee told the publisher that the layoffs were intended to reduce costs and prepare for a 2020 IPO.
2020
OYO hotel owners report unpaid amounts
The article reports that OYO hotels across China had varying degrees of unpaid amounts owed to hotel owners from October onward. Hotel owners said they were owed money, and some owners were seeking explanations at OYO's Shanghai headquarters.
2020
OYO Hotels partners with Fan Jia Xing for hotel inventory distribution
OYO Hotels partnered with the Fan Jia Xing platform and opened the supply of rooms from its sales channels for distribution through the platform.
2019
OYO appoints Ankit Gupta as COO and senior vice president
OYO Hotels & Homes said it appointed Ankit Gupta as chief operating officer and senior vice president for its coliving, rental homes and self-operated hotel businesses in India and South Asia.
2019
Oyo elevates Aditya Ghosh to its board
Oyo elevated its India and South Asia CEO Aditya Ghosh to the board.
2019
OYO launches ‘Raho Mast’ campaign
OYO Hotels & Homes rolled out its ‘OYO, Raho Mast’ campaign across television, digital and social media platforms in India, running from November 25, 2019, to January 3, 2020.
2019
OYO appoints Betsy Atkins as independent director
OYO announced the appointment of Betsy Atkins as an independent director on its board.