Twitter Asks Dozens Of Laid-Off Employees To Return, Says It Was A Mistake

After cutting roughly 50 per cent of its staff on Friday last week, social media platform Twitter is now asking dozens of employees to return, according to a Bloomberg report.

The second week of Musk-led Twitter is now asking its laid off staff to return to their old jobs as they were apparently cut due to a mistake. In addition, the Bloomberg report said that some of the cut staff were let go even before management realised that their work and experience was necessary to build new features for the platform.

Last week, Twitter laid off about 50 per cent of its workforce i.e., approximately 3,700 employees globally in a move to cut costs. The social media company had also temporarily closed its offices and blocked access for its workers to the internal systems as it looked to cut staff.

Addressing the issue of severance last week, Musk said that everyone who’s being laid off during the mass staff cut would be paid three months of severance. “[..] which is 50% more than legally required,” he had said in a tweet.

The social media company’s email to its employees on Friday had read that it would be reducing global workforce. 

Some Twitter employees have filed a class-action lawsuit last week at San Francisco federal court for eliminating jobs without prior notice.

Twitter's staff cut drive on Friday also impacted its Indian unit's engineering and entire marketing and communications teams.

Musk had completed his USD 44 billion takeover of Twitter on October 27 and has introduced significant changes on how the platform works including introducing USD 8 per month subscription for the coveted account verification badge.

On Sunday, Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweet said that the mass layoffs under Musk was due to former's choices of growing the social media company “too quickly.”