After management ended, thousands of employees were laid off worldwide. Tesla founder Elon Musk’s turbulent takeover of short message service Twitter has forced even the company’s co-founder and former boss to apologize to those affected. “I grew the company too fast. My apologies for that,” tweeted Jack Dorsey. Meanwhile, the social media giant is apparently recalling dozens of recently laid-off employees.
As the Bloomberg news agency reports, some messages received by email were misdirected. The new management is also aware that business cannot continue as desired if nearly half of the workforce is laid off. Many of those affected have already been approached and asked to come back.
Twitter had fired half of its employees on Friday, according to a tweet from Yoel Roth, the company’s head of security and integrity. Roth said 15 percent of his team, responsible for preventing the spread of misinformation and malicious content, were affected by the takedown. It was Twitter’s first confirmation of the extent of the layoffs.
Employees have filed a class action lawsuit
“All layoffs were offered a three-month severance package, which is 50 percent more than the law requires,” Musk tweeted. About 3,700 employees across the company were affected. Workers in the US filed a class action lawsuit against Twitter on Thursday. They accuse the company of failing to meet the 60-day deadline required for mass layoffs. It violates California and federal law.
Roth assured that despite the many terminations, the content of the tweets would continue to be monitored. The announcement is intended to reassure users and advertisers after the company was acquired by billionaire Musk. Musk also tweeted shortly after Roth: “To put it bluntly, Twitter’s strong commitment to content control remains absolutely unchanged.” Losing millions of dollars a day.
He previously wrote that Twitter “had suffered a massive drop in revenue” as civil rights groups expressed concern about the impact of the layoffs on free speech. Major advertisers have been pressured to withdraw their ad spend. At an investor conference in New York on Friday, Musk described the pressure from activists as “an attack on the First Amendment.”
Source: Krone
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