Twitter lays off 10% of remaining workforce in recent layoffs

Elon Musk might have promised that there could be no additional layoffs at Twitter, however from the seems of it, the billionaire has not stored his phrase. Based on a report by The Data, the social media firm undertook one more spherical of job cuts final week.

The brand new spherical of layoffs noticed round 50 staff being laid off on Saturday, and total, round 200 of its staff have discovered themselves out of a job over the weekend. This quantities to about 10% of Twitter’s remaining workforce, which has already shrunk by not less than 70% ever since Musk accomplished his $44 billion acquisition of the micro-blogging website.

This growth additionally comes quickly after Twitter laid off staff from its advert gross sales group final week. With the huge job cuts at Twitter, the social media firm is now working with a severely-depleted crew of round 2000. It is a far cry from the 7500-strong workforce that Twitter boasted of earlier than it was acquired by Musk

The brand new wave of layoffs comes as the corporate’s makes an attempt to chop down on bills and offset a extreme drop in income. Media stories counsel that it went on to have an effect on a number of engineering groups, together with people who help adtech, the Twitter app, in addition to technical infrastructure that retains Twitter’s methods up and operating. Not that the latter has been useful as of late, on condition that Twitter has been considerably glitchy and unreliable because the skeleton crew is struggling to maintain one of many main social media platforms afloat.

Twitter didn’t reply to a request for a touch upon the matter. Based on The Verge, the newest spherical of job cuts is not less than the fourth one since Musk took over the possession of Twitter. A few of the extra distinguished staff sacked throughout the newest spherical embody Esther Crawford, Director of Product Administration on the firm for the previous 2+ years, and Martijn de Kuijper, founding father of e-newsletter Revue (which Twitter acquired two years in the past earlier than shutting it down later).

At this fee, Twitter will run out of staff to fireplace earlier than Musk arms over the place of CEO to another person who’s “silly sufficient to take the job.” The billionaire lately remarked that he wanted to “stabilize the group and simply make sure that it’s in a financially wholesome place in that the product roadmap is clearly laid out,” and that Twitter would have a brand new CEO earlier than the top of the yr.

The corporate has already closed two of its three places of work in India, refused to pay the lease for its San Francisco and London places of work, and even shut down its inner Slack to forestall staff from speaking with one another. It’s hardly stunning that advertisers have chosen to leap ship and pull out amid considerations about content material moderation on the platform, resulting in Musk remarking that Twitter skilled a “huge drop in income.”