Twitter reportedly cut thousands of contractors without warning
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#65SHK)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter eliminated a large number of contract employees on Saturday, affecting anywhere from 4,400 to 5,500 workers, according to Platformer's Casey Newton. As noted by Platformer and confirmed by other reports from Axios and CNBC, most contract employees didn't receive any notice that they've been terminated and only found out after losing access to the company's email and internal communications systems.
The job cuts follow layoffs that culled about half of Twitter's workforce and slashed 15 percent of its trust and safety team. Platformer first reported about the mass firings on Saturday night, which span both US-based and global employees working in content moderation, real estate, marketing, engineering, and other departments.
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