An email sent to company employees on Thursday confirms the constrained departure rumors that have been circulating since the boss of Tesla bought the social network. A significant part of the 7,000 employees could be affected.
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“At 9 am (Pacific time), Friday, November 4, everyone will receive an email with the subject: your role in Twitter. (…) If your job is not impacted, you will receive a Notification on your address at Twitter. Otherwise on your personal address. “The approximately 7,000 social network employees bought by Elon Musk received this email Thursday, November 3, only a few hours before the company launched a vast layoff process . The method illustrates the expeditious, even brutal style, of the unstoppable entrepreneur boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who acquired the company a week earlier.
“To ensure the safety of employees, as well as computer systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all the suspended access badges. If you are in an office or on the way to get there , come back please to you, “explains the management, which justifies the use of the dismissal by email by the large number of employees in telework. Employees are also responded not to communicate outside with the media or on social networks.
The exact magnitude of the “cart” of constrained departures was not yet known on the night of Thursday to Friday. For the past few weeks, employees have seen many contradictory, but all impressive predictions paraded in the press: 75 % of all employees, then 25 %. On Thursday, the Bloomberg agency planned that half of the workforce would be thanked. The Wall Street Journal evoked a range of 2,000 to 3,700.
“a farce”
Admittedly, layoffs in the United States can be immediate, and Twitter numbers have gone from 5,500 to 7,500 employees between the end of 2020 and at the end of 2021, despite results deficits, chronicles since the creation of the company . Some employees of this ex-start Up of Silicon Valley also remind you of being much better off than many workers from other sectors. Nevertheless, the Musk method shakes and shocks some.
“The current dismissal process is a farce and a shame. Tesla minions make decisions about people whose number of codes produced they do not know. It is completely absurd,” Tweeted on Sunday, Taylor Leese, the director of a team of licensed engineers. Mr. Leese refers to the lists of employees to be kept or returned established by the new management and mentioned in several press articles. “There are ten people who manage for one who code”, complained, in October, on Twitter, Mr. Musk, seeming to want to place computer engineers at the center of the future organization.
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