Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. has reportedly reached out to hundreds of the sacked employees, asking them to return, just two days after cutting roughly half of its workforce, according to Bloomberg.
50% of the company’s staff were let go
According to the report that was released on Sunday, some of the people who were requested to return were fired “by mistake.” According to the article, others have been requested to reapply once management realized that these individuals are required to implement the new features that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had envisioned. (Modafinil)
In addition, 50% of the company’s staff were let go, including “all but two of the ethical AI team” and the whole human rights team, which UN human rights chief Volker Turk criticized in an open letter as “not a promising start.”
Musk claimed that the “reduction in force” was necessary because of the significant losses
The social media company’s employees, according to Reuters, tweeted that people from the product and engineering departments, as well as teams in charge of communications, content curation, human rights, and machine learning ethics, had been fired.
In an effort to cut costs after Musk’s acquisition, Twitter fired nearly 3,700 employees last week through email. In a tweet, Musk claimed that the “reduction in force” was necessary because of the significant losses his newly acquired company is suffering. He wrote, “Unfortunately, there is no choice when the corporation is losing over $4M/day about Twitter’s reduction in force.
He also stated that the terminated workers received severance pay that was “50% more than legally necessary,” although Bloomberg reports that many workers were first made aware of their termination when access to company-wide networks, such as email, and Slack, was abruptly banned.
