Employees will be told about their future at 6pm on Friday. Employees send each other congratulatory messages on Twitter.
Twitter will tell its employees on Friday whether they have been fired or whether their jobs will continue, Reuters reports.
Employees of the social media service Twitter have been hanging on a loose log since multi-billionaire Elon Musk bought the company last week.
Twitter has informed its employees that it will inform its employees about the layoffs at 6 p.m. Finnish time on Friday.
The new main owner of Twitter is Elon Musk. PDO
A lawsuit is pending
On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed against Twitter for illegal dismissals, Bloomberg tells.
The workers who filed the lawsuit say the mass layoffs are against California and U.S. law.
– We filed this lawsuit to make sure that the employees are aware that they do not have to give up their rights and to allow them a way to claim their rights, the lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan said.
According to the law, large companies should notify mass layoffs at least 60 days in advance.
Twitter has not immediately responded to the lawsuit.
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. PDO
Information to email
Twitter employees who are not affected by the layoffs will receive the information in their work emails. Those who are to be dismissed are informed of the dismissals in a message sent to their personal e-mails.
Twitter temporarily closes its offices and restricts staff access to the company’s premises.
Washington Post reporter Will Oremus fastened on Twitter attention to the fact that the letter about the dismissals is unsigned.
– None of the managers attached their name to it in any way, Oremus writes.
A flood of congratulations
After employees were notified of the upcoming layoffs, hundreds of the company’s employees took to the company’s Slack messaging channels to say goodbye, two Twitter employees told Reuters.
You can also find congratulatory messages on Twitter with the subject tag #OneTeam. In the messages, employees reminisce about their time in the company. Twitter employees also report being logged out of work computers and removed from employee messaging channels.
– It seems that I am unemployed. I was just logged out of my work computer and removed from Slack, one employee wrote on Twitter Finnish time on Friday morning.
– I just lost access to Twitter email and Slack. This is all so unreal, writes another.
“On a healthy path”
Elon Musk has been trying to find ways to make Twitter productive. In addition to mass layoffs, Musk has proposed changing the blue verification tokens to paid ones.
Twitter says that reducing employees is a “difficult process” to get the company “on a healthy path.”
Musk, who is known as the CEO of the electric car company Tesla, has recently raised eyebrows with his world political statements. Among other things, Musk has presented his controversial idea about the peace agreement in Ukraine.