The entrepreneur and new owner of Twitter, Ilon Musk, fired almost 50% of employees from the company, writes Reuters.
All of the work lost 3700 out of 7500 people. They were notified of dismissal in emails.
The marketing departments, public relations, advertising sales, moderation of content, user data, engineering teams, as well as employees of other units, including top managers, were greatly reduced.
Some have already filed a court. They consider the reduction illegal because they were warned about it in less than 60 days.
The dismissal of 50% of Twitter employees was confirmed by the head of the company’s security service, Yoel Rot. Elon Musk explained the reductions of the company’s losses. “Unfortunately, the company has no choice, because it loses more than $ 4 million per day. Each Twitter employee will be paid a three -month output allowance, which” is 50% more than required by law, “he said.
According to sources, the new owner of Twitter also plans to ban the remaining employees to work remotely. In addition, he removed the “holidays of rest” – a monthly general celebration day introduced during the pandemic.