SINGAPORE — Twitter workers around the world waited nervously Friday to receive an email informed of their fate as job cuts spread across the social media company.
Those in the Singapore workplace were not spared. The Straits Times understands that task cuts have taken a toll on teams, adding engineering, sales and marketing teams.
A Singaporean worker who declined to be identified described the mood over the past week as one of great concern and uncertainty.
“We continue to dismiss those rumors due to the lack of official communication until the emails arrived this morning,” the worker said.
“This is especially the case when C-suites were fired or resigned, resulting in a lack of leadership at the highest point to release data to the rest of the employees. “
In an internal email notified Friday morning by ST, the company said the cuts are “an effort to put Twitter on a healthy path. “
A moment of email informed the workers of their fate.
Those who remain in their jobs have earned an email notification of their jobs. But those who are fired have been informed of the next steps in their personal email.
It is known how many Singapore workers have been dismissed.
On social media, workers were also noted tweeting the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked and a greeting emoji to say they were leaving.
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Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, plans to cut about 3,700 jobs, or part of the company’s global workforce, in a bid to cut prices following its $44 billion ($62. 3 billion) acquisition, according to a Bloomberg report.
The contractor had begun hinting at his staffing priorities before the deal was made, saying he wanted to focus on the core product. “Software engineering, operations and server design will govern the law,” he tweeted in early October.
On Thursday, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Twitter in federal court in San Francisco over the layoff plan, which staff say violates federal and California law because staff have not been given enough notice.
Twitter workers have been preparing for layoffs since Musk took over the company in late October.
In the past, it had fired top senior executives, adding chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and senior legal executives Vijaya Gadde and Sean Edgett.
Mr. Musk proclaimed himself “Chief Twit” in his biographical knowledge on the social network. Bloomberg previously announced he would assume the role of interim CEO.
Things looked promising for the company earlier this year. In January 2022, it was reported that the company would double the number of engineers at its engineering center in Singapore to more than a hundred by the end of 2023.
The layoffs at Twitter are a series of layoffs amid a slowdown in hiring in the tech industry.
Digital invoice company Stripe announced Thursday that it would reduce its workforce by 14 percent. After task cuts, Stripe will have about 7,000 employees, according to an email sent through founders Patrick and John Collison.
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