As part of the big job cuts that Elon Musk is making a week after buying Twitter, it was also decided to close the office of the social network in Mexicoaccording to media reports.
According to El Financiero, some Twitter Mexico workers were notified of their dismissals on Thursday night, while others found out this Friday.
Elon Musk, who acquired the famous social network of the little bird for 44,000 million dollarsconfirmed that it planned to reduce the workforce by 50% to reduce costs, in addition to introducing other changes, such as charging a monthly fee per verified account.
Some Twitter Mexico employees confirmed through their accounts that this was their last day of work at the company.
“Thank you for so much Twitter. Lucky and always grateful for the opportunity to coincide with wonderful and talented people. The experience has certainly been worth it. A greatly enjoyed chapter closes!” said a former employee on Twitter.
“Thank you all for the messages of support. It has been a great adventure. I am very grateful to the people who supported me and believed in my work. I am open to a role as Creative Strategist which was my role on Twitter. Sending a hug to my fellow Tweeps,” said another former collaborator in a message.
“It was a short time, but it felt like it had been years, I’m going to miss you a lot Twitter Mexico,” another user commented.
Laid-off employees from various Twitter offices around the world share their messages with the hashtags #LoveWhereYouWorked and #OneTeam
Layoffs on Twitter after the takeover by Elon Musk began Thursday night in staff that the company has in the United States, Europe and Asia, according to local media and, as can be seen in some farewell tweets of many of those affected.
The Business Insider portal points out that at 11 p.m. Thursday in San Francisco (where Twitter headquarters are), a thousand people had already received a dismissal letter, confirming Musk’s own announcement that on Friday he would proceed to apply a “difficult” but necessary measure to “put Twitter on a healthy trajectory.”
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Among those dismissed are management positions, such as the global editorial chief, the director of ethics and transparencythe head of information or strategy, assures the same media.
The layoffs, according to the portal, already affect staff at the headquarters in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore, and one of the most affected places seems to be the New York office, where between 90% and all workers have lost their jobs, according to their own testimonies.
Musk has not quantified the final number of layoffs, but the different media assume that it will be at least half of a staff of 7,500 people; The New York Times even gives the figure of 3,738 people.
With information from EFE.
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