After taking over the company, Elon Musk begins his plan to cut half the workforce he has Twitter. The San Francisco-based company sent an email to all employees asking them not to show up at the offices this Friday, as they would be “temporarily closed” and “all login credentials” would be suspended.
“In an effort to put Twitter on a healthy path, we will begin the difficult process of shrinking our global workforce“, Warns the email sent to the entire company late Thursday.
“We recognize it it will affect many people who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but sadly this measure is necessary to ensure success company in the future, “adds the text.
The message also explains that this Friday at 9 am (local time) each worker would know their destination: “Given the nature of our distributed workforce and our desire to inform those affected as soon as possible, notices for this the process will be done through email.
“By 9:00 am on Friday 4th November, everyone will receive an individual email with the subject: Your role on Twitter. Please check your email, including your spam folder. “
And the details: “If your employment is not affected, you will be notified via your Twitter email. If your employment is affected, you will be notified with the next steps via your personal email.”
Although there are no official figures for layoffs, the newspapers Washington Post Y New York Times reported that the people affected are about half of the 7,500 employees of the platform.
Some of them made no secret of their criticisms of the trial initiated by Musk, a 51-year-old South African engineer with US and Canadian citizenship and founder of space engineering electric vehicle companies Tesla and SpaceX.
“The current layoff process is a farce and an embarrassment. Tesla minions are making decisions about people they know nothing about … It’s completely absurd,” Taylor Leese, director of an engineering team, tweeted Sunday. claims to have been thrown out.
Workers have been preparing for downsizing since the billionaire completed his $ 44 billion acquisition of the company late last week, moving quickly to dissolve its board of directors and fire its chief executive and senior executives.
At the end of Thursday, a group of five Twitter employees who have already been laid off filed a collective action against the company claiming that it did not receive the 60-day notice period required by US federal law and the state of California, according to the text of the complaint.
The lawsuit alludes to the United States Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which gives workers the right to notice in the event of mass layoffs or plant closures.
It also asks the court to prevent Twitter from asking employees to sign documents to waive their rights under the WARN Act.
Elon Musk’s reasons
Musk, the richest man in the world, said he overpayed for Twitter and is trying to make money for the company, and fast.
On Tuesday it announced that it plans to launch an $ 8 per month payment for those users who wish to certify the authenticity of your account and be less exposed to advertising.
According to press reports, Musk wanted to charge $ 20 a month, but the idea was strongly resented by users like successful novelist Stephen King, who tweeted that he should be paid to be on the blue bird social network.
In a tweet, Musk replied, “We have to pay the bills somehow. Twitter can’t rely solely on advertisers. How about $ 8?”
Musk said he plans to increase Twitter’s revenue from $ 5 billion in 2021 to over $ 26 billion in 2028.
Large companies, such as General Motors and Volkswagen, have suspended their Twitter advertising after the acquisition.
Civil rights groups also expressed concern that Musk would open the social network to uncontrolled disinformation and hate speech and restore blocked accounts, including that of former US President Donald Trump, who is He was expelled shortly after his supporters stormed Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
However, the tycoon announced that he will form a committee to evaluate the social network’s future policy on publications and the restore locked accounts.
Advertising is Twitter’s main source of income, and Musk tried to calm things down by making sure the platform didn’t become “hell for everyone”.
Source: Clarin
