Twitter staff are bracing for a jobs bloodbath as Elon Musk looks set to cull 3,700 workers around the world following his dramatic $44billion takeover.
Musk will be cutting around half of the workforce, with staff at the social media giant set to discover their fates at 9am PST.
Those in the San Francisco building are anxiously waiting for an email with the subject ‘Your Role at Twitter’ to drop into their inboxes by 9am today, while those in New York will find out their fates at 12pm.
Staff in London and Manchester will received the news in the same way, by 4pm local time in the UK, with many finding themselves locked out of their accounts when they woke up.
Members of staff have reported being logged out of their work accounts and locked out of laptops while the company sealed offices for all of its employees, as Elon Musk began to make sweeping layoffs on Friday.
Sacked workers are suing Musk for not giving enough notice of the mass job cuts, with some posting sentimental messages to the platform after being told they were to be unemployed.
Offices in the UK and US have been shut down for the day by Musk, who warned employees that their buildings would be locked and all staff badge access will be suspended in order ‘to help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data.’
As part of his plan to drive down costs at the company the world’s richest man announced the cuts internally with an email, as employees banded together on internal channels to say goodbye.
Workers say the company eliminating workers without enough notice is in violation of federal and California law, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a class-action lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court.
