TikTok Wants To Recruit 10,000 New Employees In The United States

Illustration of TikTok application (doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The short video sharing application, TikTok, is trying to break away from the Chinese state label. Now the company plans to add about 10,000 employees in the United States.

Quoted from Antara, the platform owned by ByteDance is considering a number of locations to set up its new headquarters, including the US and London. Where now, TikTok already has around 1,400 employees in the US.

TikTok itself has leased its branch office in California, United States (US) this year. At the same time asking Kevin Mayer, a former Walt Disney Co executive, to become the chief executive of US-based TikTok.

TikTok's move to recruit thousands of workers in the US comes as companies are increasingly on the brink of the Trump administration as US-China relations deteriorate due to the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing's steps to curb freedoms in Hong Kong.

Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States was "considering" a ban on the use of Chinese social media applications, including TikTok.

Last week, the US government was reportedly studying the national security risks of a number of social media applications, including TikTok, and a decision will be made in the coming weeks.