Musk visits Twitter HQ, promises staff he won’t fire 75% of them
Enlarge / Elon Musk walking into Twitter headquarters, carrying a sink. (credit: Elon Musk)
Elon Musk visited Twitter headquarters in San Francisco yesterday and reportedly assured staff that he doesn't plan to eliminate 75 percent of their jobs. Musk told employees "that he doesn't plan to cut 75 percent of the staff when he takes over the company, according to people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg wrote.
Musk's statement comes a week after a Washington Post report stated that "Musk told prospective investors in his deal to buy the company that he planned to get rid of nearly 75 percent of Twitter's 7,500 workers, whittling the company down to a skeleton staff of just over 2,000." Twitter employees reportedly slammed Musk in an open letter circulating within the company, writing that "Elon Musk's plan to lay off 75 percent of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter's ability to serve the public conversation" and that a "threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users' and customers' trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation."
According to Bloomberg, Musk "denied the previously reported number in an address to employees" at the San Francisco office. Despite telling workers he won't get rid of three-quarters of them, Musk "is still expected to cut staff as part of the takeover," the article said.