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Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by anthropodie »

zer0tonin wrote: post #35
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?

I seriously doubt Twitter will have a growth stage again

Hell I don't like what Elon does most of the times but you have to admit he did built successful companies from ground up in fields no one was even looking into.

Twitter might succeed or it might fail but Twitter in its current form both as a company and social media paltform was bad.

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by usrusr »

aliljet wrote: post #8

I'm pretty curious about how and where Twitter employees were distributed. For a company ostensibly worth $44 billion, having 7,500 staff feels pretty damn lean. It feels like Musk isn't just purging people, he's purging the Twitter culture...

Imagine what the company would be "worth" if it did everything it does but with only three and a half employees. Company culture is a cost center.

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by threeseed »

aliljet wrote: post #8

I'm pretty curious about how and where Twitter employees were distributed. For a company ostensibly worth $44 billion, having 7,500 staff feels pretty damn lean. It feels like Musk isn't just purging people, he's purging the Twitter culture...

Australia newspapers are reporting [1] that local staff have been locked out of their accounts.

They were responsible for local marketing and news curation.

[1] https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/musk-starts-mas...

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Post by wildrhythms »

bluescrn wrote: post #12
aliljet wrote: post #8

I'm pretty curious about how and where Twitter employees were distributed. For a company ostensibly worth $44 billion, having 7,500 staff feels pretty damn lean. It feels like Musk isn't just purging people, he's purging the Twitter culture...

For comparison, SpaceX runs an entire private space program on ~12,000 employees. Near-weekly launches. Rocket development+production. Building+deploying Starlink. (Although that's just a number from a quick googling. Maybe they outsource a lot of manufacturing etc?)

NASA has 18k permanent employees which I thought was surprisingly low. https://www.nasa.gov/about/index.html

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by moron4hire »

kortilla wrote: post #40
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 are you talking about? The announcement says people should leave the offices. How is that dystopian?

It's really to keep people from talking about details and exchanging contacts last-minute.

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by alxlaz »

chrisseaton wrote: post #16
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…

They're not 'forcing' you to do anything, they're offering to pay you to do it. Unless you think every time I buy some bread from my baker I'm stealing it from him?

Did you read the article, or at least the quote that the parent offered? This isn't about Twitter changing work site expectations/status. It's about blocking physical access for employees who were expected to show up at the office, without prior notice or any change in contract terms -- i.e. without their work site actually having formally changed.

This isn't even dystopian, it's just a management clusterfuck. Whoever thought this is the right way to handle this kind of a situation should be the first to go in these layoffs. Wow.

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by lm28469 »

kortilla wrote: post #40
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 are you talking about? The announcement says people should leave the offices. How is that dystopian?

> How is that dystopian?

You could generate all the electricity needed for the next 20 generations by harvesting the energy generated by the eyes rolling of people who live in countries with workers rights who just read that comment

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