Nov 6 (Reuters) - After Twitter Inc laid off roughly half its staff on Friday following Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition, the company is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday.
Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake. Others were let go before management realized that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions, the report said citing people familiar with the moves.
Twitter recently laid off 50% of its employees, including employees on the trust and safety team, the company's head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth said in a tweet earlier this week.
Tweets by staff of the social media company said teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were among those gutted, as were some product and engineering teams.
Twitter on Saturday updated its app in Apple's App Store to begin charging $8 for sought-after blue check verification marks, in Musk's first major revision of the social media platform.
Twitter did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
Reporting by Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
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evilpeter on November 7th, 2022 at 00:11 UTC »
I mean, I guess that makes perfect sense?
insideoutcognito on November 6th, 2022 at 23:48 UTC »
Reminds of a time when a bank decided they needed to be younger and more agile. Rather than updating their core banking systems (mainframe systems written in cobol in the 1970s), they let go anyone over the age of 50 who wasn't a manager or above.
Took them a month of not getting board reports to figure out that the only IT guys who could still code in Cobol, were all just let go. They tried to get them back, but they all refused since their retrenchment package was great (2 weeks pay for each year of service, and most had been there 30+ years).
Eventually a few relented and came back as consultants. I hope they charged ridiculous rates.
notatrumpchump on November 6th, 2022 at 23:18 UTC »
Whenever I take a new position I certainly expect a raise. Especially since I would be such a perfect fit for the job they’re looking for, a significant raise.
And as this company that is trying to hire me has a track record of, really REALLY fucking me over, it needs to be a really REALLY significant raise.