New Delhi: Microblogging website, Twitter reportedly laid off about 10 % of its remaining workforce, over 200 staff, on Saturday evening. This comes as part of Elon Musk’s ongoing effort to cut back prices after taking up this social media platform in October final yr.
The workforce of Twitter has been minimize down from about 7,500 staff to roughly 2,000.
In response to stories by The New York Occasions, the workforce at Twitter is smaller by 10 per cent, confirmed folks acquainted with the matter.
Final week, a report by The Info claimed that Twitter fired over 50 staff from the Gross sales and Merchandise groups.
Stories stated that Twitter made it troublesome for workers as they didn’t let staff talk with one another.
It was on Saturday (February 27) that a number of staff discovered that they had been logged out of their company electronic mail accounts and laptops.
The latest layoffs have hit engineers, product managers, knowledge scientists, and in addition those that labored in machine studying and website reliability.
Stories additionally confirmed that Elon Musk fired Esther Crawford, who was liable for Twitter Blue. Esther grew to become common after an image of her sleeping within the Twitter workplace had gone viral on social media. She was additionally thought of to be Elon Musk’s loyalist.
In late November final yr, Musk instructed staff that there have been no plans to cut back employees. Nevertheless, mass layoffs at Twitter proceed.
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