Elon Musk started firing Twitter employees en masse
The e-mail started to worry many employees, they could not immediately know if they were affected. Instead, he said, on Fridays at 9 a.m. PT, employees will receive an email with the subject line “Your role on Twitter.”
Those waiting for their jobs will be notified by their company email. They will be notified of their loss via their personal email.
And anyone who hasn’t received an email by 5 a.m. Pacific is told to follow up with the company. The offices will be closed on Friday.
“We understand that this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through whether you are affected or not,” the email continued. “Thank you for your contributions to Twitter and your patience during this process.”
Musk’s team was the company’s first official communication with its employees.
The layoff comes after a week of reviews at Twitter, in which Musk and his deputies imposed a production freeze that halted development on internal projects at Twitter, leaving Tesla engineers to review Twitter’s code and anxiously waiting for employees to stay in a data breach. Management and leadership of the company.
Musk is expected to continue with plans to lay off up to 50 percent of Twitter’s workforce, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential plans.
The job cuts are expected to affect sales, trust and safety, marketing, product, engineering and legal teams – targeting the company across the board.
The layoffs were not expected to have a significant impact on the performance of the loyal and dedicated workforce working to protect America’s elections, one official said.
Musk took ownership of Twitter last week after agreeing to buy the website for $44 billion this spring, before pulling out of the purchase and re-entering the deal amid a court battle.
Musk is the CEO of the new company. His deputies include his attorney, Alex Spiro, investor David Sachs, and Jared Birchall, who runs the Field family office.
Twitter employees prepared Thursday for the seemingly inevitable, refreshing their internal tools like messaging apps to stay up-to-date — as the prospect of losing their jobs loomed over them.
But until the email arrived that day, information was scarce.
At Twitter’s offices, employees said tearful goodbyes, exchanged contact information and tried to make their documents easily accessible to remaining employees.
They wanted him to work in his colleagues’ absence.
Before Mook took over the site, Twitter had previously planned sweeping job cuts that would affect up to a quarter of its workforce, according to people familiar with the plans. The Washington Post previously reported that the company’s board planned to cut thousands of jobs in an effort to save $700 million in labor costs.
Will Oremus and Cat Zakrzewski contributed to this report.