Elon Musk Begins Massive Twitter Layoffs Affecting Half the Workforce

Twitter's new management under Elon Musk initiates sweeping layoffs that impact approximately half of the company's 7,500 employees. Staff members learn their fate via email while offices temporarily close and badge access is suspended.

03 Nov 2022 • 1 min read

Twitter's new management under Elon Musk conducts massive layoffs that affect approximately half of the company's 7,500 employees. Workers receive notifications about their employment status at 9 A.M. PT, with retained staff getting messages on their work emails and terminated employees receiving notices on their personal accounts.

To ensure safety and protect company data, Twitter temporarily closes all of its offices and suspends all employee badge access. As they wait for the official news, anxious staff members flood an internal Slack channel with blue heart emojis to support one another.

Musk's team evaluates worker productivity by asking engineers to print out their recent code and bringing in Tesla engineers to review Twitter's systems. Additionally, the company plans to shut down its newsletter service Revue by the end of the year as part of broader cost-cutting measures to manage the $13 billion in debt from Musk's acquisition.

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