After US, Twitter starts laying off staff in India; two entire departments fired

By Online Desk

NEW DELHI:  Twitter has started laying off employees in India as part of a global job cut ordered by the social media platform’s new owner Elon Musk to attain economies of scale and make the USD 44 billion acquisition viable.

According to a report by NDTV, Twitter India’s marketing and communications departments were laid off in their entirety. 

The world’s richest businessman Musk began his innings at Twitter last week by firing the CEO Parag Agrawal as well as the CFO and some other top executives. This was followed by an exodus of top management.

Musk has now started a massive exercise to downsize the company’s global workforce.

“Lay-off has started. Some of my colleagues have received an email notification regarding this,” a Twitter India employee told PTI on condition of anonymity.

It’s all changing so fast. Thank you *so much for reaching out, so many of you. To clarify, I’m here, still, I’m fine (survivors guilt apart) but too many are not. A lot of feelings swirling (and clearly emotional tweets / texts are not clear)
For the mo’, Big hugs to all.

— amrita tripathi (@amritat) November 4, 2022

Another source said the lay-offs have affected a “significant chunk” of the India team. The full details of the job cuts were not immediately available. Twitter India did not respond to email queries.

The US-based social media platform, in an internal email to employees earlier, had said, “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday. ” It said that “everyone will receive an individual email”.

The company said it will temporarily close all offices for the safety of employees as well as Twitter systems and customer data. “If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home,” Twitter had said.

Just got laid off.
Bird App, it was an absolute honour, the greatest privilege ever to be a part of this team, this culture#LoveWhereYouWorked #LoveTwitter pic.twitter.com/bVPQxtncIg

— Yash Agarwal(@yashagarwalm) November 4, 2022

While Twitter had several run-ins with the government over freedom of speech, the company in the email barred employees from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.
READ | Employees sue Elon Musk’s Twitter over mass lay-offs
(With Inputs from PTI)

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