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Following layoffs affecting half the company, Elon Musk-run Twitter is reportedly urging dozens of employees to come back.
“Some of those being asked to return were accidentally released, according to two people familiar with the movements. Others were fired before management realized their work and experience could potentially be needed to develop the new features Musk envisions, people have been told and asked not to be identified when private information is involved.” , wrote Bloomberg.
On Friday, barely a week after Musk bought Twitter, the company went ahead with a plan to lay off about 50 percent of its workforce. About 3,700 people were reportedly released. “Many employees found out they had lost their jobs after their access to company-wide systems like email and Slack was suddenly suspended. The calls for employees to return show how rushed and messy the process was,” Bloomberg wrote.
Twitter reportedly began urging laid-off workers to come back on Saturday. Business Insider quoted a source as saying that a “worker whom Twitter asked to return turned down the offer because he ‘felt used and thought he would be fired again soon.'”
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Paid verification will be delayed until after Tuesday’s election
Twitter is also reportedly delaying implementation of Musk’s plan to verify accounts at $8 a month until after Tuesday’s midterm elections. On Saturday, Twitter prematurely announced in the release notes for an iOS app update that paid verification would be rolled out “from today”. But a company official Approved in a tweet that the change is not live yet.
The delay was also confirmed in news reports. “Twitter is delaying the rollout of account reviews for its Twitter Blue paid subscription plan until after the midterm elections, a source with knowledge of the decision, which was confirmed to CNN,” the news site wrote.
However, paid verification could be launched this week. The change “is being postponed until Wednesday to avoid possible chaos during the US midterm elections,” Bloomberg wrote. Musk had reportedly ordered staff a week earlier to make the change by November 7, which is today.
Meanwhile, five employees filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitter, alleging the layoffs violate federal and state laws on notification of worker adaptation and retraining, which require 60 days’ written notice before a mass layoff. Fired Tesla workers filed a similar lawsuit in June.
Musk defended Twitter’s firings on Friday, Write that “unfortunately, when the company is losing more than $4 million a day, there is no other choice. According to a report by The Verge, the layoffs were particularly extensive in the areas of “product trust and safety, policies, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even certain core engineering teams.” “.