Elon Musk Fires 4,400 Twitter Contract Workers

Elon Musk acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022. After that, Mr. Mask became CEO of Twitter and has laid off not only in the United States but also in Japan, India and Ireland to improve profitability. It is reported that Mr. Mask has dismissed about 4,400 people, which is 80% of the 5,500 contract employees, in order to further reduce personnel on Twitter.

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Casey Newton, who runs the technology media Platformer , reportedly dismissed 4,400 of Twitter's 5,500 contract employees on Sunday, November 13, 2022. Newton reported that contract employees were not given advance notice of dismissal and were unilaterally deprived of access to Slack and business emails, and it seems that managers were not notified of dismissal. The dismissed contract employee was involved in content moderation, real estate, and marketing.

Contractors aren't being notified at all, they're just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system.

They heard nothing from their leaders

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022

Newton said from a contract employee who was fired by Twitter, ``I am a Twitter contract employee. Your report is accurate. I've noticed that I can't log in.' message.

You don't have to treat people this way pic.twitter.com/YLBJdJqvkH

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022

Newton has received information from sources that ``4,400 out of about 5,500 contract employees have been laid off'', so ``the content moderation and core infrastructure services that keep Twitter running will be significantly impacted. I hope it can give.'

Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.

People inside are stunned.

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022

Overseas media Axios also confirmed from another source that a large-scale dismissal of contract employees is taking place on Twitter, saying, ``Although not all contract employees who have been dismissed, some have given advance notice of dismissal on Twitter. I did not receive it from A contract employee who was dismissed without prior notice seems to have realized that he was dismissed when he saw that access to Twitter's computer system was blocked. Melissa Ingle, who worked as a content moderation contract employee in San Francisco, also acknowledged the fact of dismissal to Axios.