Twitter Breaks 4,400 Contract Employees, Part Of Rationalizations Performed By Elon Musk

Elon Musk tweeted over when many employees were fired. (photo: twitter @elonmusk)

JAKARTA - Twitter finally cut off a large number of contract employees on Saturday, November 12. According tolan Newton of the Platformer, this decision affected 4,400 to 5,500 contract workers.

As Platformer noted and confirmed by other reports from Axios and CNBC, most of the contract employees did not receive any notification that they had been dismissed and only found out after losing access to company email and internal communication systems.

This layoff follows mass layoffs that destroyed about half of Twitter's workforce and cut 15 percent of its trust and security teams.

Platformer first reported on mass dismissal on Saturday night, which includes US-based and global employees working on content moderation, real estate, marketing, engineering, and other departments.

Twitter reportedly failed to notify managers of the layoffs as well, who were unaware their colleagues had been laid off until after seeing that their accounts had been deactivated on the Twitter system.

According to an internal email sent to the contractor and obtained by Insider, Twitter explains that termination of employment is part of repriority and savings." It also tells employees that their last day was Monday, November 14, but they are not expected to do anything.

Following the acquisition by Musk, a number of Twitter executives have resigned or been fired, and there is a possibility that more employees will lose their jobs due to the company's new direct work policy.

Twitter HQ is great (this is a real pic) pic.twitter.com/qjfOQCr533

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022

In the transcript of the question and answer session between Musk and employees obtained by Alex Heath from The Verge, Musk explained that workers must return to the office and only "extraordinary people" can work remotely. "Basically, if you can appear in the office and you don't appear in the office, then resignation is accepted," Musk said.

Twitter did not immediately reply to requests for comment from the media. Understandably, the company no longer has a communication department.