Elon Musk spent the weekend creating plans with his inner circle to lay off 25% of Twitter's staff, report says
The publication reported that Musk's inner circle and the remaining Twitter senior executives who weren't fired in a purge on Thursday spent the weekend discussing plans ranging from content moderation to chopping the company's workforce, which stands at roughly 7,500, per the company's 2021 annual report.
One person familiar with the discussions told The Post that the first round of layoffs would target around 25% of the company's workforce and cover almost all departments, with an emphasis on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety. Twitter didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside of regular working hours.
Rumors of mass layoffs have been circulating over the past few months in anticipation of Musk's takeover, though different figures have been cited and conversations among Twitter staff about potential layoffsAfter Musk's deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion went through on Thursday, the tech mogul appears to have started conducting aThis includes asking the social media platform's managers to carry out performance reviews and send lists of which employees should be kept on, people...
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