A savage, company-wide email has informed Twitter staffers that their jobs are on the line, just days after controversial billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform.
The email revealed that mass lay-offs were on the cards, with some expecting the 7500-strong workforce to potentially shrink by 50 per cent under Musk’s leadership.
“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,” the email stated, according to the Washington Post.
“We recognise 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.”
Staff were told to go home and not return to the office on Friday as the cuts got underway.
The team now faces an anxious wait, with employees set to receive a second email with the brutal subject line: “Your Role at Twitter” which will inform them of their future within the company.
“We acknowledge this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through, whether or not you are impacted,” the email continued.
“We are grateful for your contributions to Twitter and for your patience as we move through this process.”
The email was the first from Musk to all staffers since he took over last week, after buying the site for a staggering $US44 billion.
It is understood that few areas of the business will be safe from the cull, with the Post reporting that positions within the “sales, trust and safety, marketing, product, engineering and legal teams” are all on the chopping block.
It comes after Musk immediately fired Twitter’s Chief Executive Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, as well as head of legal policy, trust and safety Vijaya Gadde, who was the person behind the decision to permanently ban former US President Donald Trump from the platform in the wake of the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
Since then, a slew of other senior managers have also been stood down or resigned, with the New York Times reporting that managers were ordered to prepare lists of high and low-performing team members.
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