Elon Musk started mass layoffs on Twitter on Friday. Now he apparently realizes that he urgently needs some of the fired employees – and asks that they come back.
Chaos continues to reign at the Twitter group after Elon Musk took power. It was only on Friday that the company fired masses of employees by email, almost half of the 3,700 employees are affected. Now the management team around Musk is apparently trying to bring back some of those who have been laid off. This is reported by the news agency and other US media.
According to Bloomberg, dozens of employees who lost their jobs have already been contacted by the new Twitter leadership with a request to come back to work. Some of the employees were “accidentally” fired, writes Bloomberg, citing insiders. For others, the new management only realized after the dismissal that they needed the skills and experience to implement the new features Musk requested on Twitter.
Musk announced last week that the blue verification hook would cost $8 a month in the future. Musk also thought aloud about other innovations such as the revival of the short video service Vine. There have also been reports that Musk and his associates have been rushing Twitter developers through demanding tasks on tight schedules. Employees got the impression that if you don’t deliver, you’ll soon lose your job.
Less people, more work
The old management fired Musk on his first day at work. Last Friday, the large mass dismissal of about half of the workforce followed, which was announced via e-mail. Employees report that access to the company notebook was immediately blocked. Musk tweeted that he had “no choice” as Twitter was losing over $4 million a day.
The Tesla boss bought the loss-making company for around $44 billion and owed about $13 billion of the purchase price to Twitter himself. So not only does Twitter not make any money, it also has to pay off debts and pay interest.
Therefore, Musk now wants to save massively on costs and rebuild the short message service in such a way that it generates income. Technical chaos is also inevitable. “There will be massive failures on Twitter,” said an ex-employee who was responsible for a critical part of the technical infrastructure, the . The only question is how bad it will get.
The subscription model for the blue tick is to be launched after this week’s US midterm elections, with further changes to follow in the near future. On the other hand, Twitter is threatened with a decline in its main source of income, advertising, since numerous companies are suspending their advertising bookings on Twitter. They fear that Musk could again offer a forum under the label of free speech, radicals and conspiracy theorists on Twitter.
Source: Stern
Jane Stock is a technology author, who has written for 24 Hours World. She writes about the latest in technology news and trends, and is always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to improve his audience’s experience.
