After layoffs targeting half the company, Elon Musk-led Twitter is reportedly asking dozens of employees to return. “Some of those asked to return were accidentally fired, according to two people familiar with the moves. Others were let go before management realized their work and experience might be necessary to build the new features it envisions. Musk, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing personal information,” Bloomberg wrote. On Friday, just a week after Musk bought Twitter, the company moved ahead with a plan to lay off about 50 percent of its workforce. About 3,700 people were reportedly laid off. “Many employees learned they lost their jobs after their access to company-wide systems like email and Slack were suddenly suspended. Requests for employees to return show how rushed and chaotic the process was,” Bloomberg wrote. . Reports say Twitter began asking laid-off workers to return on Saturday. Business Insider cited a source as saying that an “employee who asked Twitter to return turned down the offer because he felt ‘used and believes he will be fired again soon.’ Advertising
Paid verification was delayed until Tuesday’s election
Twitter is also reportedly delaying implementation of Musk’s plan to verify accounts for $8 a month until Tuesday’s midterm elections. Twitter said early Saturday in the release notes for an iOS app update that paid verification would roll out “starting today.” However, a company official confirmed in a tweet that the change is not yet live. The delay was also confirmed in publications. “Twitter is delaying the rollout of account verifications for its paid Twitter Blue membership program until after the midterm elections, a source with knowledge of the decision confirmed to CNN,” the news site wrote. However, paid verification could start this week. The change “is being delayed until Wednesday to avoid potential chaos during the US midterm elections,” Bloomberg wrote. A week earlier, Musk reportedly ordered employees to make the change by Nov. 7, which is today. Meanwhile, five employees filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitter alleging the layoffs violated federal and state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification laws, which require 60 days’ written notice before a mass layoff. Fired Tesla workers filed a similar lawsuit in June. Musk defended the layoffs on Twitter on Friday, writing that “unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4 million/day. All those leaving were offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than required by law.” A report by The Verge said the layoffs were particularly extensive in “product trust and security, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even some of its core engineering teams.” Twitter”.
