Elon Musk starts firing Twitter employees as promised. The website TheVerge revealed an internal memo distributed to the social network’s employees stating that “we will begin reducing our global workforce” on November 4. The memorandum was not signed by Musk or any member of the board.
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This is a confirmation of the words of the new owner, Elon Musk, who has already announced many times that he intends to start a period of widespread layoffs at Twitter and lead fundamental changes in the company’s activities and its product. Since Musk walked into Twitter’s offices last week, there has been unconfirmed speculation among the company’s employees about layoffs.
According to the memorandum received by Twitter employees, every member of the company’s team will receive an email notifying them if they have been fired by 9:00 a.m. local time. It was also stated in the memorandum that the employee badges that grant access to the offices will stop working temporarily.
“We are aware that this is a very challenging experience to go through, whether you will be affected or not,” the memo reads, “Thank you for continuing to abide by Twitter’s policy that prohibits you from discussing the company’s confidential information on social networks, with the media or in any other public place.”
The document distributed at the offices of the social network did not specify how many employees would be laid off, but Musk repeated recently that he plans to cut the number of employees at Twitter in half, which currently stands at 7,500 people. The outside consultants he brought into Twitter’s offices last week looked at which engineers and technical managers were effective at the company and contributing to the code base, according to testimony from Twitter employees.
The massive cutback is part of Musk’s plans to cut costs at Twitter. Back in June, before he tried to get out of the deal to buy the social network, he told the employees that “now, the expenses are exceeding the revenues. So it’s not a great situation to be in. And we will have to reduce the number of employees and expenses so that the revenues will return to the lead. Otherwise, Twitter simply will not be able to grow “.
The Verge website reported that many employees began disconnecting their company’s professional email from their Twitter accounts. Twitter requires all its employees to connect their accounts to their company email and also requires two-step user authentication or physical keys.