This comes a week after billionaire Elon Musk took the reins of Twitter and affirms multiple reports that the microblogging platform라이브 바카라 new owner was planning mass layoffs in a bid to slash costs.
A week after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk acquired Twitter, employee layoffs at the social media company are expected to get underway on Friday and about half of Twitter라이브 바카라 7,500 workers appeared set to lose their jobs, according to a media report.
The New York Times, citing a company-wide email, reported that Musk will “begin laying off Twitter employees on Friday”, exactly a week after he completed the USD 44 billion acquisition of the social media company and ousted CEO Parag Agrawal, legal executive Vijaya Gadde, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and General Counsel Sean Edgett.
The NYT report added that “Twitter employees were notified in the email that the layoffs were set to begin” and “workers were instructed to go home and not return to the offices on Friday as the cuts proceeded.”
“In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global work force,” the email said, according to the NYT report. “We recognise that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company라이브 바카라 success moving forward.”
The report added that employees took note of a Slack message that suggested “3,738 people” could be laid off and that changes could still be made to the list.
While it is not yet clear what the exact number of layoffs will be, it is estimated that “about half of Twitter라이브 바카라 workers appeared set to lose their jobs.”
Rumours of layoffs at Twitter have been doing the rounds for some time and following Musk라이브 바카라 acquisition, managers at Twitter were asked to “draw up lists of high- and low-performing employees, likely with an eye toward job cuts”, the NYT report said.
Ahead of the impending layoffs, some employees circulated a “Layoff Guide” with tips on corporate surveillance and employment rights, the NYT report said. One worker, who had created software to help colleagues download important emails and documents, was later fired.
The repot added that under the terms of his deal to acquirer Twitter, Musk agreed to keep employee compensation and benefits the same for one year. “Twitter workers are typically paid at least two months’ salary and the cash value of equity they were scheduled to receive within three months of a layoff date,” the NYT report said.
Musk has announced and indicated plans to bring about drastic changes to and at Twitter, including charging USD 8 per month for the blue verification tick in front of a user라이브 바카라 name that authenticates the individual or company on the social media platform.
Twitter라이브 바카라 ‘Days of Rest’, which are monthly days that employees can take to rest and recharge were removed from their calendars.
It was yesterday only when the image is of바카라 웹사이트Twitter's director of product management Esther Crawford made rounds on social media where she was seen sleeping on the office floor after working overtime in order to meet the stringent deadlines.
According to several reports, work hours have got extended for all the employess since Musk became the sole operator of the microblogging site.바카라 웹사이트Some media suggest that바카라 웹사이트Twitter managers have been told to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week.
According to a New York Post report,바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트Mr Musk has asked workers to "literally work 24/7 to meet the deadlines for an overhaul of Twitter's user verification process."