Elon Musk may have laid off 4,400 contractual workers at Twitter days after he took over the company and fired about 50 percent of its workforce – about 3,800 employees.
Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system. Contractors are not being notified at all, just losing access to Slack and email,” tweeted Platformer’s Casey Newton. “Their leaders did not communicate with them,” he wrote. The new wave of layoffs started over the weekend have not been responded to by Musk or Twitter.
People who suddenly lost access to Twitter’s internal systems discovered they were no longer employed by the company. One manager posted on the company’s internal Slack messaging platform, “A contractor just got deactivated without notice in the middle of changing our child safety workflows.” According to Engadget, many contractors ended up on teams without full-time staff following Twitter’s earlier layoffs, which left them without anyone to sign off on their timesheets.