Wayfair is laying off nearly 900 employees, the company's CEO announced.

In a letter to employees, Niraj Shah said that the company has not grown as anticipated.

"Our team is too large for the environment we are now in, and unfortunately we need to adjust," he said.

Wayfair is offering a minimum of 10 weeks pay to outgoing employees in the U.S. Bonuses will also be paid out to eligible employees, Shah said.

"The individuals being impacted have not only made tremendous contributions to the company as colleagues but have enriched us all as our partners and friends," Shah stated.

Wayfair is based in Boston. According to ABC News, about 400 employees at its headquarters will be losing their jobs.

CNN reports that shares of Wayfair are down about 70% since the start of the year.

DETROIT (WXYZ) -- At the Western Wayne Skill Center, independence is the goal. The program within Garfield Community School in Livonia , Michigan, students who have cognitive impairments, ages 18 to 26, learn valuable skills.

"We teach them job skills, they're also learning problem-solving, how to work with others, how to take direction, how to correct their work when they make a mistake, and working through any issues that all of us workers come across on a day to day basis," said Western Wayne Skill Center teacher Amy Munday.

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Amy, an educator for 15 years, works with students at the center, usually out in the field at various job sites. So when the pandemic hit, that on-the-job training stalled.

"We had to get creative and think, 'OK, well, we still want to teach them job skills, how can we do this?'" she said.

That’s when Amy's recent basement renovation and love for do-it-yourself projects sparked an idea.

"I started to gain more confidence and thinking, 'OK, this is something I might be able to do with the students,'" said Amy.

Amy says she put a few feelers out on Facebook community pages asking for old furniture, and that’s when Skill-ful Designs was born, a class that teaches students how to take old furniture from drab to fab.

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"We have ... redone kids' desks, dressers, coffee tables, end tables. We do smaller craft projects, the Solo box holder for parties, welcome signs," she said."We have multiple pieces going on at one time. We have the sanding going on in the wood shop, we have some students back here either painting or putting poly on, waxing pieces."

And what once was old is new again.

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"When we go back and look at the before and after photos, it's a drastic change for some of the pieces. So they get ... that instant, 'ahhhhh,'" Amy said.

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Darrien Daske, a Western Wayne Skill Center student, agrees that the transformation is satisfying and that he feels like he's done a "very nice job."

Those beautifully refinished pieces are then sold on the Skill-ful Designs Facebook page, with the money going to help fund events and activities for the students.

Amy says she’s appreciative of the local support, shouting out the Plymouth Home Depot and Behr Paint for donating to their efforts, among others.

"I feel very blessed to be a part of Skill-ful Designs because the community's embraced it. The students are getting a kick out of it," she said.

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Amy says she hopes Skill-ful Designs continues after the pandemic.

This story originally reported by Alexandra Bahou on WXYZ.com.