Days After Laying Off Half The Firm, Twitter Asks Some Staff To Come Again

Simply days after shedding about half of Twitter’s workforce following Elon Musk’s acquisition, the corporate is now asking dozens of these workers to return again.

On Friday, Musk started mass layoffs on the San Francisco-based firm, letting go of roughly 3,700 employees through e-mail. Many Twitter workers expressed studying of their layoff after they have been already reduce off from accessing company-wide methods.

However according to Platformer and Bloomberg, the corporate is already making an attempt to reverse course and rent again dozens of workers it simply laid off ― persevering with the chaos Musk has introduced since taking up Twitter.

“sorry to @- everyone on the weekend however I wished to move alongside that now we have the chance to ask people that have been left off if they’ll come again. I have to put collectively names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday,” still-employed employees learn Saturday on Twitter Slack. “I’ll do a little analysis but when any of you who’ve been involved with people who may come again and who we expect will assist us, please nominate tomorrow earlier than 4.”

A few of those that the corporate is asking to return have been laid off by mistake, sources informed Bloomberg, whereas others have been fired earlier than administration realized their expertise was mandatory to construct the brand new options Musk desires for the platform.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for touch upon the reported rehiring effort.

Twitter is already going through a lawsuit over the job cuts. In a federal lawsuit in search of class motion standing filed Thursday, employees declare Twitter violated federal and California legislation by not giving sufficient discover earlier than conducting the mass layoffs.

The firings marked the top of Musk’s chaotic first week working Twitter, the place the billionaire swiftly tried to search out methods to chop prices and create new income streams for the corporate. Musk’s $44 billion acquisition deal piled Twitter with $13 billion in debt ― ensuing within the firm now having to pay about $1 billion a yr in curiosity bills alone, regardless of traditionally not recurrently making a revenue.