Musk fired almost all Indian Twitter employees

Twitter employees globally received an email at 4am IST on November 4, informing them that if their role was affected by the reduction, they would be able to access Twitter’s internal systems, such as Slack, email, etc. will lose A lawyer close to the company also noted that some employees voluntarily opted to put down their papers in anticipation of layoffs. The company had already gone through a downsizing in September this year.

Furthermore, sources confirmed that people from Twitter’s curation team, which curates content for the Twitter Moments feature, have been let go. Other teams affected include communications, global content partnerships, sales and advertising revenue, engineering and products. A company close said that all or at least 50% of the employees on these teams have been let go.

A former employee of the employees who were laid off said that some contract employees who were not on full time company rolls have also been retained.

“Just missed. Bird App, it was an absolute honour, the greatest privilege ever to be part of this team, this culture,” tweeted Yash Agarwal, who was previously part of the public policy team at the company. “It’s an honor. Part of this team and this organization. It gives me so much gratitude to be able to call you guys my colleagues and my friends.

“It’s been an amazing ride,” wrote Shifalika Yogi, whose profile indicates she was a Senior Customer Account Manager at Twitter.

The first round of layoffs on Twitter began on Friday following a formal email sent by the company on Thursday, purportedly asking workers around the world to stay home and wait for another email that would give them their jobs. Will update about the status.

“In an effort to get Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce,” Reuters reported on Friday in an email sent to employees.

According to a July report by Statista, Twitter employed about 7,500 people as of December 2021, up from 5,500 in the previous year.

Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk, plans to halve the workforce at the social media company, reports Bloomberg and Reuters.

According to a WSJ report, after the $44 billion deal was completed last week, Musk fired top Twitter executives including CEO Parag Agarwal, CFO Ned Segal, legal and policy chief Vijaya Gadde. Several top executives, including CMO Leslie Berland, also left the company following the sacking of top executives.

With inputs from Abhijit Ahskar