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Twitter has notified employees that it will be “reducing its global workforce” on Friday, as new CEO Elon Musk plans to lay off roughly half of the company’s 7,600 employees.
Employees were supposed to get an email by 9 a.m. According to an internal memo obtained by The Verge, employees have until 9 p.m. PST (9.30 p.m. India time) to confirm whether they have been laid off or not.
Employee badge access to Twitter’s offices will be “temporarily” disabled.
“To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended. If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home,” Twitter said in an internal memo.
“We acknowledge this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through, whether or not you are impacted,” the memo further read.
“Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere,” the company added.
Musk’s team of advisors, according to the report, decided which engineers and technical managers to keep based on their contributions to Twitter’s codebase.
Employees on Twitter’s Slack and group chat groups complained about Musk and other senior executives’ lack of internal communication.
“Given the nature of our distributed workforce and our desire to inform impacted individuals as quickly as possible, communications for this process will take place via email,” said the company.
“If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification with next steps via your personal email,” said the company.
Twitter stated that whether or not you are affected, this is an extremely difficult experience to go through.
Musk took over as Twitter CEO last week and immediately fired Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, the company’s policy chief, among others.
Leslie Berland, the company’s chief marketing officer, is also leaving, along with other senior executives, amid growing uncertainty.
Source:IANS
