Elon Musk is about to start mass layoffs on Friday, which is a move that will expand the Twitter purge. A report claiming to have seen an internal mail from the company has suggested that Twitter will start the process as early as Friday. Employees will be intimated about their status via email. These actions come a week after Musk took over the world's biggest micro-blogging platform.
According to a report by Reuters, Twitter will send an email to the employees to inform them whether they have been laid off. The report says the company will be temporarily closing its offices and preventing staff access. The employees will be alerted about their status by 9 am Pacific Time 9: 30 pm IST Due to the mass layoffs, Twitter will temporarily close the offices and revoke all badge access from the employees. The company is doing so to make sure the safety of employees as well as of the customer data is a priority for the company. There is no official data on the number of employees that Twitter is planning to layoffs. The company might be facing a 50 per cent workforce reduction, according to reports. In total, there are around 7,500 employees on Twitter. The company could ax around 3500 jobs.
The top executives at Twitter were fired on the first day of Elon's Twitter takeover. The former CEO, the former CFO, the former CFO, and even Vijaya Gadde, were the first to leave the company.