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| Musk fires employees contracted with Twitter without warning |
Elon Musk launched a new round of layoffs for Twitter employees as he reportedly began firing employees at the company without warning today following the mass layoffs on November 4.
Many large companies - including Twitter - rely on full-time employees and contract workers who work for third parties. Sources confirmed to Axios today that Twitter has stopped working with an undisclosed number of contractors in various areas including: Content moderation.
Yesterday, some employees who logged into Twitter found their work accounts suspended and inaccessible without warning, and some also worried about their pay because their teams ran out of time for the company's full-time employees, signing their cards. .
Casey Newton says other areas of Twitter, such as real estate and marketing, are also affected by the termination of contracts.
Some current Twitter administrators have also complained that Slack deleted the account of one of its contractors without warning amid major changes to the platform's child protection mandate.
Employees logged into Twitter did not receive a direct message from the company that their job was completed. Instead, they found their work accounts had stopped working, just as full-time workers on Thursday, November 3 found they couldn't access work platforms like Slack and email until they received the promised email on Friday.
But after the mass layoffs, Twitter realized their skills were essential to existing projects, including new features it prioritized new management, and called some employees to give them full-time jobs.
It was also reported that Musk terminated remote work on Twitter last Thursday and told employees that new rules that began working at the company require employees to be in the office at least 40 hours a week, unless he agrees.
There is no doubt that the Twitter platform has experienced unprecedented turmoil since Elon Musk took over, with the new government introducing and then withdrawing a number of products and features, including a new version of the verification service account (Twitter Blue) that subscribers allowed. To receive the blue verification badge that celebrities, politicians, journalists, government agencies and businesses receive after their accounts are verified.
However, the company shut down the service a few days after its launch due to misuse of the service as many people use the subscription service to impersonate many famous athletes and politicians as well as some brands.