The layoffs continue on Elon Musk’s Twitter.
Twitter reportedly fired thousands of contractors this weekend without notice or warning. Casey Newtown, a tech reporter who writes Substack, Platformer, reported on Sunday that Twitter was laying off about 4,400 of its 5,500 contract employees. Newton also reported that the contractors were not warned, just stripped of access to Slack and email.
The cuts [were] It is expected to have a significant impact on content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site running,” Newton wrote on Twitter. Axios later confirmed that Twitter had laid off a large number of contractors, including people in the content moderation.
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Musk’s tenure at the helm of Twitter has been one of dysfunction, hasty ideas and layoffs. And while layoffs are never a fun or welcome thing, they’ve been particularly hard on employees at Twitter. The company laid off about half of its full-time employees and then reportedly reclaimed some because things weren’t going well without them. The entire process was handled via impersonal, automated emails. Company employees have described office morale as terrible.
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So now there are even more people out there who have done important work on Twitter. Musk has reportedly said the company is in financial trouble — he paid a whopping $44 billion for the company — and needs to make up ground with a skeleton crew. The chaos doesn’t look like it’s slowing down any time soon.