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Hatua hiyo inakuja siku chake tangu Tajiri wa Dunia Elon Musk kukamilisha ununuzi wa kampuni hiyo kwa Tsh. Trilioni 102 ambapo alitangaza kufanya mabadiliko ya uendeshaji ikiwemo kupunguza wafanyakazi.
Wafanyakazi wengi wanasema ni heri waondoke kazini na wengine wana wasiwasi kuwa kutokubaliana na Musk kunaweza kuwapotezea kazi na mafao yao.
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Twitter will be laying off staff members, it said in an email obtained by NBC News.
In the email, sent Thursday evening, Twitter said it would notify staffers by email about their employment.
“We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward,” the email said.
It had been widely reported that Musk planned to slash the company's 7,500-person payroll after he finalized his $44 billion acquisition late last week. He immediately dismissed CEO Parag Agrawal, as well as Twitter’s chief financial officer and its head of legal, public policy and trust and safety upon taking over the company.
A Twitter employee said Thursday's email was the first communication staff members had received from Twitter since the acquisition Oct. 27.
"It's total chaos, house melting down, everyone looking towards this email," the employee said.
According to the email from Twitter, staff members will get notices either through their company email accounts — if they still have jobs — or their personal email accounts if their "employment is impacted."
The company said staffing is being reduced in "an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path."
All employees will receive an email on Friday, the notice said. Those who will keep their jobs will get an email to their work account, those being laid off will receive a notification to their personal email. Employees were reminded not to disclose “confidential company information” on social media or with press.
The layoffs come as Musk was speculated to cut as much as 50% of Twitter’s workforce, just days after becoming the head of the company he purchased for $44bn. That could mean thousands of jobs lost, as the company had more than 7,000 employees at the end of 2021 according to a regulatory filing.
Twitter said in the email to employees that its offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended in order “to help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data”.
Musk already fired several top Twitter executives immediately upon taking control of the company, including the chief executive, Parag Agrawal, finance chief, Ned Segal, and legal affairs and policy chief, Vijaya Gadde.
Musk’s job slashes come as part of a broader effort to make the company profitable after purchasing it for $44bn, a price he admitted constituted “overpaying”. To complete the deal, Musk put forward a combination of his own funding and loans of approximately $13bn, which he is now facing pressure to pay back.
On Thursday, Musk directed Twitter’s teams to free up $1bn in annual infrastructure cost savings by slashing funding for cloud services and servers. He has floated a number of ideas to make profit at Twitter, including a plan to charge for “verified” badges, and creating an “everything app” that would combine several platforms into one.
The Washington Post, citing an internal source, said the pending layoffs were anticipated to impact the company broadly, with cuts in marketing, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety.
Experts in misinformation and civil rights advocates have warned that cutting Twitter staff just days before midterm elections in the US could have grave consequences, as the platform has already struggled with content moderation and will now have fewer resources.
“With the horrific attack on Paul Pelosi, we only just witnessed how social media conspiracy theories can result in real-world violence, yet Musk is dangerously speed-running through this process,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director at the Tech Oversight Project.
Twitter employees shared messages of support with one another on the platform on Thu
Senior community manager Simon Balmain tweeted he believed he had been fired after he was remotely logged out of his work laptop and removed from the company’s internal communications app, Slack.
#OneTeam forever. Loved you all so much,” he tweeted. “So sad it had to end this way.”
Workplace morale has reportedly been suffering for months as the chaotic saga of whether Musk would purchase Twitter wore on, with employees quitting in droves.
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Hatua hiyo inakuja siku chake tangu Tajiri wa Dunia Elon Musk kukamilisha ununuzi wa kampuni hiyo kwa Tsh. Trilioni 102 ambapo alitangaza kufanya mabadiliko ya uendeshaji ikiwemo kupunguza wafanyakazi.
Wafanyakazi wengi wanasema ni heri waondoke kazini na wengine wana wasiwasi kuwa kutokubaliana na Musk kunaweza kuwapotezea kazi na mafao yao.
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Twitter will be laying off staff members, it said in an email obtained by NBC News.
In the email, sent Thursday evening, Twitter said it would notify staffers by email about their employment.
“We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward,” the email said.
It had been widely reported that Musk planned to slash the company's 7,500-person payroll after he finalized his $44 billion acquisition late last week. He immediately dismissed CEO Parag Agrawal, as well as Twitter’s chief financial officer and its head of legal, public policy and trust and safety upon taking over the company.
A Twitter employee said Thursday's email was the first communication staff members had received from Twitter since the acquisition Oct. 27.
"It's total chaos, house melting down, everyone looking towards this email," the employee said.
According to the email from Twitter, staff members will get notices either through their company email accounts — if they still have jobs — or their personal email accounts if their "employment is impacted."
The company said staffing is being reduced in "an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path."
All employees will receive an email on Friday, the notice said. Those who will keep their jobs will get an email to their work account, those being laid off will receive a notification to their personal email. Employees were reminded not to disclose “confidential company information” on social media or with press.
The layoffs come as Musk was speculated to cut as much as 50% of Twitter’s workforce, just days after becoming the head of the company he purchased for $44bn. That could mean thousands of jobs lost, as the company had more than 7,000 employees at the end of 2021 according to a regulatory filing.
Twitter said in the email to employees that its offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended in order “to help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data”.
Musk already fired several top Twitter executives immediately upon taking control of the company, including the chief executive, Parag Agrawal, finance chief, Ned Segal, and legal affairs and policy chief, Vijaya Gadde.
Musk’s job slashes come as part of a broader effort to make the company profitable after purchasing it for $44bn, a price he admitted constituted “overpaying”. To complete the deal, Musk put forward a combination of his own funding and loans of approximately $13bn, which he is now facing pressure to pay back.
On Thursday, Musk directed Twitter’s teams to free up $1bn in annual infrastructure cost savings by slashing funding for cloud services and servers. He has floated a number of ideas to make profit at Twitter, including a plan to charge for “verified” badges, and creating an “everything app” that would combine several platforms into one.
The Washington Post, citing an internal source, said the pending layoffs were anticipated to impact the company broadly, with cuts in marketing, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety.
Experts in misinformation and civil rights advocates have warned that cutting Twitter staff just days before midterm elections in the US could have grave consequences, as the platform has already struggled with content moderation and will now have fewer resources.
“With the horrific attack on Paul Pelosi, we only just witnessed how social media conspiracy theories can result in real-world violence, yet Musk is dangerously speed-running through this process,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director at the Tech Oversight Project.
Twitter employees shared messages of support with one another on the platform on Thu
Senior community manager Simon Balmain tweeted he believed he had been fired after he was remotely logged out of his work laptop and removed from the company’s internal communications app, Slack.
#OneTeam forever. Loved you all so much,” he tweeted. “So sad it had to end this way.”
Workplace morale has reportedly been suffering for months as the chaotic saga of whether Musk would purchase Twitter wore on, with employees quitting in droves.
THE GUARDIAN
