A lot has happened in the short time that Elon Musk has been at the helm of Twitter.
From October 28, 2022, when the tycoon was present at the San Francisco offices, Musk fired the CEO, the CFO and the head of Legal of the social network.
It also dissolved the board of directors, brought in staff from Tesla and Autopilot, and announced changes to the verified account system.
A week later, on November 4, the new head of Twitter laid off some 3,700 workers worldwide. This represents about 50 percent of the social network’s workforce.
But in one country, the impact seems to have been greater, as reported on November 8 Business Insider.
Indeed, in India, where Twitter has local offices, Musk cut 90 percent of employees over the weekend.
Of the around 210 workers, only 12 remained, according to the US media report that cites people with extensive knowledge of Twitter’s human resources strategy.
Of the total employees laid off in India, Nearly 70 percent of layoffs in India affected workers in the Product and Engineering departments, about 140 of the slightly more than two hundred.
In addition, most of those who until last week worked in marketing, corporate communication and public policy were fired.
As it turned out, all the now former Twitter employees fired by Musk will be compensated.
disconnected
According to Business Insider, before the employees were formally fired, some reported that they had lost access to their PCs connected to offices, emails and Slack accounts with which they communicated with other employees and bosses. of the company.
“Everyone who left was offered three months severance pay, which is 50 percent more than legal,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Friday.
He did so a few hours after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized for the layoffs, saying “the size of the company grew too fast.”
Elon Musk finally bought Twitter at the end of October after spending 44 billion dollars, a value considered excessive by analysts, but which he had to pay after signing an agreement in April.
Although he later regretted those purchase conditions and tried to get out of the deal, the start of a legal process in which he had every chance of losing led him to the original acquisition.
Employees sleeping on Twitter
Last week, a Twitter employee became famous on social media after she was the subject of a photo that went viral.
It was about Esther Crawford, Director of Product at Twitter, who was seen in a photo sleeping in the social network’s offices in San Francisco. The text said: “When your team is working hard to meet deadlines, sometimes you have to sleep where you work.”
The comments to the image were very varied, but the majority aimed to qualify as “exploitative” the work that Twitter employees are experiencing under the leadership of the tycoon. It will be a “true nightmare”, say Internet users.
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