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Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs start Friday
The Verge ^ | November 3, 2022 | Alex Heath

Posted on 11/03/2022 6:12:52 PM PDT by House Atreides

Twitter has notified employees that the company will be “reducing our global workforce” on Friday, November 4th….

…While the memo doesn't detail the scope of the cuts, they are expected to number roughly half of Twitter’s roughly 7,500 workforce.

You can read the full Twitter memo to employees below:

Team,

In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday. We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward.

Given the nature of our distributed workforce and our desire to inform impacted individuals as quickly as possible, communications for this process will take place via email. By 9AM PST on Friday Nov. 4th, everyone will receive an individual email with the subject line: Your Role at Twitter. Please check your email, including your spam folder.

If your employment is not impacted, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email.

If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification… via your personal email.

If you do not receive an email from twitter-hr@ by 5PM PST on Friday Nov. 4th, please email peoplequestions@twitter.com.

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. If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home….

…Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.

We are grateful for your contributions to Twitter and for your patience as we move through this process.

Thank you.

Twitter Developing...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; twitter
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Quicker than I expected. Much quicker.
1 posted on 11/03/2022 6:12:52 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Good. Go through with a stiff rake.


2 posted on 11/03/2022 6:15:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: House Atreides

Bye Bye Leftist Hacks.


3 posted on 11/03/2022 6:17:20 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: House Atreides

For whom the tolls…


4 posted on 11/03/2022 6:19:23 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: House Atreides
Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.

And that goes double for whoever leaked this memo.

5 posted on 11/03/2022 6:21:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
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To: House Atreides

I’m guessing a lot of Dems will be looking for jobs...come election day, How appropriate is that. Such irony.


6 posted on 11/03/2022 6:21:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: House Atreides
.. our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended.
If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home….

Color me schadenfreude   :-)

7 posted on 11/03/2022 6:23:05 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: House Atreides

Go woke, go broke!

Hope they didn’t spend their student loan forgiveness yet. LOL


8 posted on 11/03/2022 6:23:25 PM PDT by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: House Atreides

I think California has a layoff notice period law for large companies.


9 posted on 11/03/2022 6:23:55 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: House Atreides
Elon Musk has started something important. And I praise his quick action.

Twitter is very much like DC? Both totally Corrupt and many employees are almost worthless.

If you chose the right half of DC employees to fire, no one outside of DC would notice. I would be a good start.

If this can be done at Twitter? Why can we not DownSize DC too?

It's TIME to DownSize DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

10 posted on 11/03/2022 6:24:46 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: House Atreides

I lost my high tech job about 45 days after 9-11.

I was OK.

The guy who laid me off is now my Senator and the owner of the company is now my Governor.

Things work out OK.


11 posted on 11/03/2022 6:24:50 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: crusty old prospector

For whom the bell tolls.


12 posted on 11/03/2022 6:25:31 PM PDT by waterhill (Resistrain)
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To: House Atreides

And remember Donald Trump’s most famous line?

“You’re Fired”


13 posted on 11/03/2022 6:26:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: House Atreides

It’s HAMMER time!


14 posted on 11/03/2022 6:27:14 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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Yes. California has the WARN system. Required to provide 60 days notice. 60 days!


15 posted on 11/03/2022 6:28:24 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: waterhill

Dang. I guess I had better zoom in next time.


16 posted on 11/03/2022 6:28:38 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: House Atreides

I like the personal touch of receiving notice of termination in a personal email. They’ve already been deprovisioned from email and all other systems.


17 posted on 11/03/2022 6:30:58 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: House Atreides
This is a professional way to handle a mass layoff. It's always a bad scene when people are getting escorted out of offices and congregating in the parking lots with cardboard boxes. Those still in the office are wondering if they will be next. All productivity comes to a halt. In Twitter's case, you can bet the media will be camped out in those parking lots, making it a spectacle.

Note how those affected will be getting notified through their personal email. This means Twitter will have already deleted their access to the company's network and systems. Another professional move.

18 posted on 11/03/2022 6:32:55 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,439,437 active user on Truth Social)
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To: House Atreides

I bet $1 the layoffs don’t happen tomorrow because some democrat judge will say they can’t because of some stupid law the democrats put in place in the 1960s.


19 posted on 11/03/2022 6:33:38 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: CatOwner

>>>Yes. California has the WARN system. Required to provide 60 days notice. 60 days!>>>

He should have moved Twitter Corporate to Texas first. Then done the layoffs and told California where to go. Texas don’t give a S@#$ what California says.


20 posted on 11/03/2022 6:33:38 PM PDT by vespa300
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