The culling began abouttakeover was completed. Although the total number of employees laid off has yet to be confirmed, employees from the company’s offices around the world, including Canada, Ireland, India, and its head office in San Francisco have reported receiving messages signalling that their “role at Twitter has been identified as potentially impacted or at risk of redundancy.”
“There is nothing visionary or innovative about summarily firing” workers, Lehrich told the New York Times, adding that it was especially shortsighted to lay off workers with “specialized expertise and deep institutional knowledge” before Musk “even seems to have a basic grasp of the business.”