Posted on 01/22/2023 2:00:04 PM PST by george76
Internal records show that Twitter has shed about 80% of its employees since Elon Musk took over and headcount is hovering around 1,300 working employees today.
fewer than 550 full-time engineers
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In addition to the 1,300 full-time Twitter employees, new owner and CEO Elon Musk has authorized about 130 people from his other companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Co., to work for the social media business.
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Twitter’s full-time headcount has dwindled to approximately 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title, according to internal records viewed by CNBC. Around 75 of the company’s 1,300 employees are on leave including about 40 engineers.
The company’s trust and safety team, which makes policy recommendations, design and product changes with the aim of keeping all of Twitter’s users safe, is down to fewer than 20 full-time employees.
Internal records indicate that there are also about 1,400 non-working employees of Twitter who are still being paid, but are no longer expected to fulfill their old responsibilities at the social media company. Many of them resigned when CEO Elon Musk sent out a “pledge” asking them to commit to “hardcore” work at Twitter 2.0 including long hours.
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Under Musk’s management, Twitter has slashed headcount through mass layoffs, other terminations and changes that compelled many to resign, including the end of a work-from-home forever policy that had been put in place under former CEO Jack Dorsey.
Before Musk led a $44 billion leveraged buyout of Twitter last year, Twitter’s headcount stood at about 7,500 employees.
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Twitter is already built and in production.
Guess it is back to the FBI for them then....
Sounds like Elon wants to make money.
Nah, it’s to the IRS, making $40K a year as a GS7.
When you add this recent number of firings to the 3,700 he fired back in November, it looks like he plugged that hole and then some.
And by cleaning out the lazy latte crowd, he probably improved performance significantly for those who remained.
Improved the performance or got performance from those that remained?
I bet he improved morale substantially for those who were actually doing real work.
sounds about right...
it’s not a self driving car or self landing rocket or something...
Twitter now gives a blue checkmark to anybody willing to pay $5/mo for the service. I might sign up shortly for that.
Free Republic should do something like that. Charge a nominal monthly fee in exchange for a "checkmark" or some other recognition on their profile. Seems a small and insignificant thing but many people will pay it for the status symbol alone. I know I was motivated to pay $30/mo here to be in the "dollar a day club" but that seems to have fallen by the wayside.
Would certainly cut down on or eliminate the constant Freepathons.
I'm thinking there is a legal reason Free Republic can't do that however. Too bad.
That must be true. The essential ingredients for resentment in that regard are no longer present. If you have heat+fuel+oxygen=fire, take one of the three away and, emergency handled.
You bet. Big lift in performance and moral.
So once which took 7500 workers now require 1500 workers? Very interesting.... At $250,000 per worker (should be close when adding payroll cost in California), that’s a saving of 1.5 billion dollars a year. Nice job Elon 🤣🤣🤣
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I wonder if Musk got rid of the free drinks and eats areas? Maybe throwing out the deadwood saved enough to let the productive continue to benefit from the free cappuccino, latte and whatever machines. Pretty sure the free wine took a hike.
With me in charge, you could run Twitters core business with 20 old white guys.
So what CNN.. how many engineers does SpaceX have or Tesla? 550 engineers for an already built platform seems like a lot.. Yes I am an IT engineer and manager.
What Twitter does isn’t too complicated. Even 550 engineers still seems like a lot.
I reckon Musk sold all the wine dispensers in the employee break room. Oh, the horror! Snowflakes melting for miles!
A couple of dozen geezers could handle it. I know a bunch of them.
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