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Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by jleyank »

mitemte wrote: post #39
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #18

What a contrast in leadership when you compare the way Twitter is doing this (rumor is right before bonus/stock vesting and cold impersonal email) and how Stripe is conducting their layoffs (empathy, 14 weeks severance, bonus payouts, etc.) Which company is going to have an easier time hiring after the dust settles and they have a growth stage again?

Are there no laws about minimum notice or severance pay? I’m glad Australia has decent laws to protect workers. It’ll be interesting to see if Australian Twitter staff who are locked out of their accounts have been laid off and what happens next. https://www.fairwork.gov.au/tools-and-resources/fact-sheets/...

Yeah there are laws : https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/termination/plantclosings. Probably state laws as well. These require notice of severance or post payment and protect against discrimination. Twitter can try to claim that they’re all being fired for cause, but that’ll just end up paying a whole lot of lawyers.

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Post by code51 »

> "Twitter’s newsletter service Revue will be shut down by the end of the year. Revue was acquired by Twitter in January 2021 for an undisclosed amount. The report also says that Notes, a longform posting feature, is on hold, as is Twitter’s plan to build crypto wallets."

All these are look so distant to Twitter's core value.

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Post by xiphias2 »

rob74 wrote: post #13

> “To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended,” the email reads. “If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.” Welcome to the dystopian future... I find it a bit galling how companies can force you into home office nowadays if it suits them (you want to avoid your un…

What about Foxconn China not allowing employees to go home because of ,,zero COVID policy''?

For me that is dystopian.

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Post by threeseed »

xiphias2 wrote: post #4

,,The ML Ethics, Transparency, & Accountability team was one of a kind'' Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

> Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

Actually almost everyone who is in the Data/ML space knows about it.

It's one of the biggest challenges in ML which is making sure that models don't amplify biases in the training datasets and cause harm to users and the company. There have been many stories with TikTok for example recommending accounts which promote unhealthy eating [1] to users with a known eating disorder.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

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Post by pavlov »

In four years Musk will be bored to death with Twitter and will sell it to private equity and the Saudis for $5 billion. At that point it will be mostly a platform for porn creators and crypto pumping, the only two verticals where Twitter seems to be actually growing lately.

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by koheripbal »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #53
redwood wrote: post #9

In my view no single medium (the media is the message) has done more to weaken the quality of public discourse in the world than Twitter. But maybe Facebook proves that even if you're allowed to use prose crazies dominate so maybe the issue is deeper

Twitter is the most interesting on the internet, by far. If the discourse quality sucks, you're following the wrong accounts.

All the nobody asinine replies are noisy. It can definitely do better.

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Post by Tenoke »

mitemte wrote: post #39
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #18

What a contrast in leadership when you compare the way Twitter is doing this (rumor is right before bonus/stock vesting and cold impersonal email) and how Stripe is conducting their layoffs (empathy, 14 weeks severance, bonus payouts, etc.) Which company is going to have an easier time hiring after the dust settles and they have a growth stage again?

Are there no laws about minimum notice or severance pay? I’m glad Australia has decent laws to protect workers. It’ll be interesting to see if Australian Twitter staff who are locked out of their accounts have been laid off and what happens next. https://www.fairwork.gov.au/tools-and-resources/fact-sheets/...

In cases like this typically they'd just fire you and pay the salary through the minimum notice period without requiring nor allowing you to show up. I see no reason to think that's not the case here.
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