DoTERRA announced its layoffs first in a company-wide email, telling employees to go home for the day and await news of their fate. Then, individual emails were sent to employees who were cut.

One of Utah's largest direct-selling companies — doTERRA, the essential oils maker based in Pleasant Grove — just cut 7% of its staff, or just shy of 300 jobs.

Utah-based doTERRA, a multi-level marketing company known for its high-end, high-priced essential oils, confirmed it was unloading 7% of its workforce.