McLean software company ID.me Inc. has laid off dozens of employees following a period of rapid growth and just months after the Internal Revenue Service halted use of ID.me’s facial recognition technology to verify taxpayers’ identification.
The layoffs affected 54 employees, according to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice reported on the Virginia Employment Commission’s website. The notice date and the impact date — when the layoffs would take place — were both listed as June 7. It’s not clear when the laid-off workers were alerted.
The 12-year-old company framed the layoffs as part of an effort to improve efficiency. “As ID.me progresses, we continue to look for ways to reduce redundancy and streamline our processes through technological innovation,” ID.me said in a statement in response to questions from the Washington Business Journal.
The reductions come just months after lawmakers criticized the IRS for using ID.me’s facial recognition…
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