Twitter layoffs have been commonplace for the reason that company was acquired by Elon Musk last October, and the social media giant’s latest round indicates that Twitter’s owner and CEO won’t stop anytime soon.
The Latest York Times reported on Monday that Twitter had laid off one other 200 employees, about 10% of the corporate’s total remaining workforce. It’s estimated that the corporate currently employs lower than 2,000 employees.
Reports say product managers, data scientists and engineers were affected. This was the eighth round of Twitter layoffs under the Musk guise.
Certainly one of those fired was Esther Crawford, Twitter’s director of product management, who went viral in November after a coworker posted a photo of her sleeping on the ground of Twitter’s office while attempting to “meet deadlines.”
When your team is pushing across the clock to satisfy deadlines, sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD
— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
“We have been within the midst of a crazy public takeover for months but we’re moving on and I’m so happy with our strength and resilience,” she wrote on social media on the time after the photo went viral. “Creating latest things on the size of Twitter could be very difficult. I’m lucky to be doing this job alongside the very best people in technology.”
Although Crawford didn’t confirm she was fired (her Twitter bio still said she had been employed by the corporate since Monday morning), she wrote a message to followers that appeared to confer with those that mocked her while sleeping.
The worst you possibly can get from watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or labor was a mistake. Those that mock and mock are necessarily on the sidelines, not in the world. I’m deeply happy with the team that made it through a lot noise and chaos.
— Esther Crawford (@esthercrawford) February 27, 2023
Twitter’s Sck messaging service was supposedly disabled a week before the layoffs, and employees (each current and former) said Twitter had logged employees out of their corporate email accounts and laptops Saturday night.
I get up to search out that I actually have been blocked from my email. Looks like I have been fired. Now my adventure with Revue is actually over?
— Martijn (@mdekuijper) February 26, 2023
Some Twitter engineers were cut off from their work emails and laptops today and consider it a layoff. It’s unclear at the moment how many individuals this has happened to, but Musk told employees in late November that the layoffs had been accomplished. With /@RMac18
— kate conger (@kateconger) February 26, 2023
On Sunday, Musk tweeted a seemingly uplifting message, hoping his followers were having fun with their weekends.
I hope you will have a good Sunday.
The primary day of the remainder of your life.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2023
“First day of the remainder of your life,” he wrote in what some saw as a cheeky nod to laid-off employees.
While Musk has not commented publicly on the layoffs or confirmed the number, Platform managing editor Zoe Schiffer reported that Musk confirmed the layoffs internally.
He acknowledged that the newest round of layoffs was difficult, and said the Twitter employees who’re still with the corporate are highly regarded by those around them.
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) February 27, 2023
Musk has stepped in with hard-working employees for the reason that start of his $44 billion acquisition of the corporate, including the removal of former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal inside a week of his acquisition and the lack of nearly 66% of his workforce throughout the first month.
Twitter has lost greater than 5,500 employees since October last yr.