World Richest Man and Twitter’s new owner chief executive, Elon Musk, fired almost all of the Indian staff from his social media platform.
According to reports, The company had nearly 250 employees in India. Twitter employees globally received an email at around 4 am on 4th November, informing them that they will lose access to Twitter’s internal systems, like Slack, emails, etc. if their role is impacted by the downsizing.
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A lawyer close to the company also noted that some employees chose to put in their papers voluntarily, in anticipation of the layoffs. The company had already undergone a round of downsizing in September this year.
Further, 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 Ad Revenue, Engineering, and Product. All or at least 50% of employees in these teams have been let go, a person close to the company said.
Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk slash half of the workforce at the social media company.
After the completion of the $44 billion deal last week, Musk fired top Twitter executives including CEO Parag Agrawal, and CFO Ned Segal along with legal and policy head Vijaya Gadde, according to a WSJ report. Several top executives including CMO Leslie Berland also left the company after the firing of top executives.
Twitter fired more than 90% of its staff in India over the weekend as part of global reductions by new owner Elon Musk.
The company employed just over 200 people in India, and the cuts left it with just about a dozen staff, which would likely shut down Twitter Office in India. According to the latest reports, a large number of India staff were fired from Twitter then it is likely that soon Twitter will shut down its office in India.
