After laying off half of its staff, Twitter might be asking some employees to come back

The company is reaching out to some employees who were laid off last week. Almost half of the staff at the company were laid off when Musk took over.

Some people were asked to come back as they were laid off, according to a report. As they were critical for building features for the platform Musk envisions, it called some other employees back.

A number of posts on the anonymous app Blind indicated that a few employees may have been called back. The remaining employees were asked to make a list of potential candidates that could be called back.

From Twitter Slack: “sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday.

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 6, 2022

Human rights, accessibility, machine learning ethics, transparency and accountability, advertising, marketing, communications, engineering, and curation were some of the departments the company had dismissed. It's not surprising that some of those people are critical to keep the platform running smoothly.

Within weeks of taking over the company, Musk has promised a bunch of new features. There are very tight deadlines set by the CEO of the company. It might be difficult for the rest of the employees to get things done on time.

Musk and his team are going to build a new version of TweetDeck and attach long-form text to it. Multiple people from these teams were fired according to a former employee. The new CEO promised to build a paywall by feature with a set of publishers days after it ended a similar program.

A group of former employees filed a class action lawsuit against the company for not giving them enough notice before they were fired. 60 days of advance notice is required by the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act as well as the California WARN Act, which was alleged to have been violated by the social network.

After the Musk takeover, there have been job cuts at the social networking site. There has been a mess with the product launch. Several people received notifications over the weekend that the company is rolling out a blue checkmark to people who are willing to pay a monthly fee. Esther Crawford said that the notifications were just a part of a test. The new verification system was supposed to be rolled out over the weekend but was put on hold until after the elections.

It is possible that the communication staff was laid off.

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