Stitch Fix will shift work from San Francisco to lower-cost cities

Stitch Fix is slashing 1,400 of its California-based personal-shopping stylists as it seeks to replace its workforce with employees in states with lower labor costs. The cuts represent about 18% of the San Francisco-based company’s roughly 8,000 workers it had as of Aug. 2019, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Of this group, 5,100 are stylists. The stylists help customers of the subscription-based service select clothing items to try, and customers are charged…