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Dozens of Twitter employees were fired overnight Wednesday, people familiar with the matter told Insider.
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The layoffs, mostly engineers, came as a surprise inside Twitter, the people said.
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Thousands of Twitter employees have been fired, resigned or fired since Musk took over.
Elon Musk fired several dozen Twitter employees overnight Wednesday, most of whom were engineers, two people familiar with the company’s stock told Insider.
The layoffs came as a surprise inside Twitter, the people said. Musk said at a town hall meeting earlier this week that there would be no more layoffs at the company.
Employees laid off overnight Wednesday were told they were being terminated for performance reasons and given a month’s severance pay, one of the people said.
The dismissal process was similar to that experienced by previously terminated employees, the two people said: access to work tools and computers was cut off, and a dismissal notice was sent to employees’ personal email accounts. concerned.
Thousands of Twitter employees have already been fired, resigned or terminated by Musk, leaving critical workers breathless. Twitter’s teams are already so small that many employees had to work Thanksgiving, the people said.
The layoffs are believed to be, at least in part, the result of Musk’s new policy requiring Twitter engineers and other staff working on code or technical projects to update it weekly on this site. what they worked on, what they hoped to complete, and specific lines. of code they wrote, as Insider previously reported. While these updates are usually due on Fridays, this week they were due Wednesday due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Twitter recruiters reportedly brought in outside engineers to work for the company under Musk, and Musk even hired a prank that tricked the press into thinking he had just been fired from Twitter. These developments had led staff to believe Musk had given up his habit of sudden layoffs, one of the people said.
A representative for Musk did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
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