About 80% of Twitter employees were fired or quit themselves since the company was headed by the American businessman Ilon Musk. This was announced on January 20 by the television channel CNBC with reference to internal documents Twitter.
According to CNBC, now instead of 7.5 thousand people on Twitter, only about 1.3 thousand work on Twitter. In addition, about 1.4 thousand people are listed in the staff of the microblogging service, they receive a salary there, but do not work there .
CNBC clarifies that less than 550 engineers are left in the company. Only two dozen employees reduced the “trust and security team”, responsible for protecting users and developing editorial policy.
As the engineer who resigned from Twitter emphasized, such a loss of employees and staff reduction may complicate the service of the service, whose work is introduced by new functions.
The channel also notes that Elon Musk allowed to attract Twitter 130 specialists from other companies to help, including Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Co.