Twitter | Elon Musk | Terminated Employees

After Elon Musk bought Twitter in April 2022, he said he would lay off thousands of employees. He took control of Twitter on October 28, a few months after signing the deal, and announced on November 1 that he would charge verified account holders an $8 per month fee to increase the platform's revenue and now they informed thousands of employees by terminating their jobs.

The American newspaper 'New York Times reported in its report that thousands of Twitter employees received e-mails saying they were out of a job or at risk on November 4, after which employees' access to Twitter's e-mail and chat servers was also lost. Done. According to the newspaper, the short email sent by Twitter to employees did not explicitly ask them to be fired but told them that their employment was about to be terminated or was in jeopardy.

The report said that employees were instructed to stay at home wherever they are, and not to come to the office for work on November 5. More information will be provided to them in the coming days. According to the New York Times, the email sent to the employees was sent not by an individual but by Twitter and expressed regret over the loss of people's jobs. In this regard, the American broadcasting organization "CNN" said in its report that on November 4, thousands of employees received e-mails regarding the termination of their jobs and the employees were prevented from coming to the office on November 5.

The report said that after receiving Twitter's email, the employees posted about their termination of employment on other social media platforms, including Twitter, and also reported that their access to Twitter's emails and chat services had been terminated. It was not immediately known how many employees Twitter sent the layoff emails to, but the company is believed to have notified about half of its 7,500 employees, or 3,700 employees, the reports said. What will be informed?

According to the New York Times, employees have also received a variety of emails, such as one in New York being told that his job will end in February 2023, when he can still work at the company. Similarly, employees working in Twitter's office in Dublin, Ireland, have been told in an email that their jobs are going to end and more information will be provided to them soon.