Fear and uncertainty as Twitter employees in Singapore await fate

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Twitter employees worldwide waited nervously on Friday to find out their fate through an e-mail as job cuts swept through the social media company. Those...

A second e-mail later notified employees of their fate.

Twitter’s new owner, Mr Elon Musk, plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs, or half of the company’s global workforce, in a bid to drive down costs following his US$44 billion acquisition, said a Bloomberg report. On Thursday, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Twitter in San Francisco’s federal court over the layoff plan, which workers say violates federal and California laws as employees were not given enough notice.

 

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