Twitter, after having fired approximately 50 percent of the company’s workers (about 3,700), now he is contacting dozens of them to come back.
This is how it is published this Monday, November 7, by the financial media of the United States Bloomberg.
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.
Twitter mistakenly lays off valuable human resources
The billionaire Musk arrived on Twitter with thousands of layoffs under his arm. He first dissolved the board of directors, fired the CEO, the CFO and the head of Legal and, days later, almost half of the workforce of a total of 7,200 workers.
The problem is that some of those laid off were mistakenly fired, according to two people familiar with the decisions seen by Bloomberg.
According to the outlet, they were fired before the new human resources managers realized that their work and experience would be necessary to develop some of the changes that Elon Musk wants for the “new Twitter”.
As detailed by many of the now former Twitter employees, layoffs were widespreadbut focused on teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights, and machine learning ethics.
Also many programmers and leaders of the product and engineering departments.
sleeping in the office
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 offices of the social network in San Francisco. The caption read: “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.
When you need something from your boss at elon twitter pic.twitter.com/hfArXl5NiL
— Evan Jones (@evanstnlyjones) November 2, 2022
After the photo went viral, Crawford said the decision to sleep on the job was voluntary and he did it to “fit the needs of his team.”
Layoffs in Meta
This week, Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, also plans to launch a mega layoff plan. This is confirmed by a report from the Wall Street Journal.
According to the US media, the layoffs at the company led by Mark Zuckerberg will affect “thousands of employees” and will begin to be announced on Wednesday, November 8.
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