Twitter shuts offices for day as it cuts 50% of workforce; staff already suing

After it was reported that 50 percent of its staff would be laid off, the company temporarily shut down its offices. Hundreds of employees who got the news yesterday immediately went to slack to say goodbye, according to some staff. The content moderation team is expected to be hit hardest by layoffs according to other workers.

A person in the bio says he used to be a senior community manager on the social networking site. When employees receive an email to their personal inbox, they will find out if they are fired or not. An email will be sent to every employee's inbox.

The email announcements are expected to arrive by noon on Friday, according to an internal email from the company.

More than 3000 employees are expected to be laid off. This sudden confirmation, however, will at least end the uncertainty for staff, who were left guessing until yesterday about whether Musk would follow through with rumored mass layoffs.

Some staff members are fighting back. Musk and his legal team ignored the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires 60 days' notice to staff in advance of mass layoffs.

Five employees filed a class-action lawsuit in a San Francisco federal court on behalf of all of the staff at the social network. The workers will be represented by an attorney who helped the workers file a lawsuit after they were laid off. There was litigation that ended in a win for the company. In order to prevent another Musk company from doing the same, employees have asked the court to stop them from being forced to sign documents.

The lawsuit was filed in order to make sure that employees are aware that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights.

Ars did not get a response from the two companies.

The class-action lawsuit is asking the company to either comply with the WARN Act or provide lost wages, which have not been provided yet.

The staff is using the # One Team to provide support through the layoffs. A person with a bio that says he is a "recovering" global head of social and editorial for Twitter posted a final message from his account. There is a screen cap that says goodbye to everyone.