(Belga) “We will begin the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday,” Twitter told its employees on Thursday in an email seen by AFP, confirming rumors that have been circulating since Elon Musk took over Belga. social network a week ago.
The message says all employees will receive information by Friday morning when the California office opens, but does not specify how many people will be affected. According to the Washington Post, the new leader plans to lay off about 50% of the approximately 7,500 employees. “We recognize that a number of individuals who have made notable contributions to Twitter are going to be affected, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success in the future,” the company told employees. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars and took control last Thursday, after six months of a very eventful acquisition. He immediately disbanded the board of directors, fired the chief executive and other senior officials, and launched major projects with goals to be accomplished quickly. Several engineers reported having to sleep on site some nights. Elon Musk, who first renamed himself “Chief Twit” (“twit” meaning “moron” in English), then “Twitter hotline switchboard operator”, brought in Tesla developers on Friday to switch to reviews the work of Twitter employees. “The ongoing layoff process is a farce and disgrace. Tesla minions making decisions on people they know nothing about except the number of lines of code produced. This is complete nonsense,” Taylor tweeted on Sunday. Leese, the manager of an engineering team who says he was fired. (Belga)
The message says all employees will receive information by Friday morning when the California office opens, but does not specify how many people will be affected. According to the Washington Post, the new leader plans to lay off about 50% of the approximately 7,500 employees. “We recognize that a number of individuals who have made notable contributions to Twitter are going to be affected, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success in the future,” the company told employees. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars and took control last Thursday, after six months of a very eventful acquisition. He immediately disbanded the board of directors, fired the chief executive and other senior officials, and launched major projects with goals to be accomplished quickly. Several engineers reported having to sleep on site some nights. Elon Musk, who first renamed himself “Chief Twit” (“twit” meaning “moron” in English), then “Twitter hotline switchboard operator”, brought in Tesla developers on Friday to switch to reviews the work of Twitter employees. “The ongoing layoff process is a farce and disgrace. Tesla minions making decisions on people they know nothing about except the number of lines of code produced. This is complete nonsense,” Taylor tweeted on Sunday. Leese, the manager of an engineering team who says he was fired. (Belga)