Company employee crisis

The company laid off employees during the crisis, so at the end of the crisis, it had 40% fewer employees than before the crisis. When the company hired 42 new employees after the crisis subsided, it had 25% more than at the end of the crisis. How many employees did the company have before the crisis?

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