Twitter temporarily closes offices as layoffs begin

Twitter Inc temporarily closed its offices on Friday after telling employees they would be informed by email later if they were to be laid off.

The move follows a week of uncertainty over the company’s future under new ownership. Elon Musk.

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The social media company said in an email to staff that it would inform them by 9 am Pacific time on Friday (12 pm EDT/4 pm GMT) about the job cuts.

“In an effort to put Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday.”, said the email sent on Thursday, seen by Reuters.

Musk, the world’s richest person, is seeking to cut around 3,700 employees from Twitteror about half of the workforce, as it seeks to cut costs and impose a demanding new work ethic, according to internal plans reviewed by Reuters this week.

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The company’s content moderation team is expected to be the target of the cuts, tweets from Twitter employees suggested on Friday. Musk has vowed to restore free speech and prevent it from descending into a “hellscape.”

Twitter employees expressed their frustrations over the layoffs on the social network, using the hashtag #OneTeam.

With information from Reuters

Source: Elcomercio

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