Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
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Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
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Re: Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
#2How does a 75% workforce cut even work logistically for a company not on its deathbed?
Re: Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
#3How does a 75% workforce cut even work logistically for a company not on its deathbed?
How does a company like this need 7,500 people?
Re: Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
#4How does a 75% workforce cut even work logistically for a company not on its deathbed?
25% of twitter's current employee base is still ~1,900 people...
I don't see why this would be infeasible.
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#6I can't wait!
Re: Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
#7How does a 75% workforce cut even work logistically for a company not on its deathbed?
25% of twitter's current employee base is still ~1,900 people... I don't see why this would be infeasible.
You think the top performing 25% are going to want to stick around when you fire 3/4 of their coworkers?
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#8How does a 75% workforce cut even work logistically for a company not on its deathbed?
Sometimes a 75% workforce cut is exactly what a company on its deathbed needs. In the case of Twitter they wouldn't even need to fire anyone. Just make employees sign a statement reaffirming their commitment to free speech and the 1st Amendment (ala forced DEI statements at other companies) and 75% of Twitter employees would likely depart on their own.
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#9I can’t imagine many engineering teams that would hold up very well if 75% of the team vanished —- you would lose so much knowledge of your own codebase for starters, and morale would be a disaster. 90% of those who remained would start thinking of switching jobs out of pure pessimism.
Then again, I bet it won’t happen. The actual cuts will be far smaller once it’s actually time to do it… Unless his finances are too strained I guess
Re: Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
#10How does a 75% workforce cut even work logistically for a company not on its deathbed?
How does a company like this need 7,500 people?
Because it's a set of massive engineering systems, applications, advertising market, social institution, etc.? Big, complex sociotechnical systems require a lot of human beings to keep moving along.