The elimination of a large number of contract employees on Saturday affected as many as 5,000 workers. After losing access to the company's email and internal communications systems, most contract employees didn't receive any notice that they've been terminated.
About half of the workforce was laid off and the trust and safety team was slashed. The mass firings of both US-based and global employees were reported by platformer on Saturday night.
Managers of these job cuts didn't know that their colleagues had been terminated until after they saw that their accounts had been deleted. According to an internal email sent to contractors and obtained by Insider, the job cuts are part of a reorganization and savings exercise. Employees won't be expected to do anything on the last day of work.
It is possible that more employees will lose their jobs over the company's new in-person work policy after a number of executives resigned or were fired. In a transcript of a Q&A session between Musk and employees, Musk made it clear that only exceptional people can work from home. If you can show up in an office but don't show up at the office, you can resign.
A request for comment was not immediately responded to by the social networking site. There was a communications department at the company.
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