Did Elon Musk go too fast when he fired nearly half of Twitter’s employees a few days after buying it? The specialized media Business Insider and Bloomberg claim that some dismissed employees have received an email calling them… to come back.
According to Bloomberg, citing internal sources at Twitter, some of these employees were fired by mistake. Others would have been dismissed before the management realized their usefulness, their experience and knowledge of the platform could be an asset for the creation of the functionalities planned by Elon Musk, also specifies the newspaper.
However, the number of employees expected to return would be marginal compared to the total number of people dismissed. Bloomberg refers to “dozens” of employees, when an internal company source reported to Business Insider that this concerned only five people on Saturday. “These individuals are essential to the functioning of the Twitter ecosystem,” she justified.
“I was asked to come back on Saturday morning”
Interviewed by Business Insider on the professional social network Blind, employees fired from Twitter in recent days confirmed having received a message calling them to return. ” It’s true. I was asked to come back Saturday morning,” one wrote. A source told the newspaper that at least one employee had turned down the offer, saying he was “used and thought he would soon be fired”.
After buying Twitter for 44 billion dollars – after initially giving up on the purchase, Elon Musk took control of the social network by starting to lay off nearly half of the workforce. “Unfortunately, there is no other choice when the company is losing more than 4 million dollars a day”, had justified the new owner of the social network, also the richest man in the world.