Musk to slash Twitter’s headcount by half — report • TechCrunch

Extra on rumors of looming job cuts at Twitter: Bloomberg is reporting that new proprietor Elon Musk will slash headcount by 50% to chop prices, citing individuals conversant in the matter. Its report suggests workers will start being instructed Friday.

Moreover, Bloomberg says Musk will reverse Twitter’s present ‘work from wherever’ coverage — and intends to require workers to work from places of work, with the likelihood that some exceptions could possibly be made.

The social media agency has round 7,500 staff in whole globally — so halving headcount would imply reducing round 3,750 jobs.

Whereas issuing a blanket mandate to return to workplace working could possibly be a technique for Musk to speed up the workers purge by encouraging staff to depart voluntarily in the event that they don’t just like the change of phrases.

We reached out to Twitter for touch upon Bloomberg’s report however on the time of writing it had not responded.

A lot of workers already left Twitter previous to the Musk takeover, electing to depart pre-emptively moderately than keep for the inevitable drama/office hell.

Musk additionally fired a clutch of prime execs instantly on taking up the corporate, together with former CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, Common Counsel Sean Edgett and Head of Authorized Coverage, Belief and Security Vijaya Gadde — reportedly bringing in a coterie of advisors and Tesla workers to assist him resolve on how one can restructure Twitter.

The billionaire has not but made it clear how he’ll reshape the corporate — however he’s underneath strain to shrink prices given the quantity of debt he’s needed to tackle by taking up Twitter.

In current days, he has additionally been lashing out at Twitter’s core clients (advertisers), following experiences that some are going chilly on the platform over model security issues connected to his specific model of ‘free speech’ — a self-defeating dynamic that appears set to extend Musk’s monetary bind.

Bloomberg’s report of looming job cuts of fifty% follows a Washington Submit article on the finish of final month that urged Musk deliberate to chop 25% of the workforce.

Earlier final month the Submit had additionally reported that Musk deliberate to axe 75% of Twitter workers — a report Musk denied, in response to a Bloomberg report citing ‘individuals conversant in the matter’.

Whereas Musk doesn’t seem to have made public remarks on any of those headcount downsizing rumors he did tweet late final month to disclaim a New York Occasions report that had urged layoffs at Twitter would happen earlier than November 1 in an effort to keep away from schedule inventory grant payouts — dubbing that report “false”.

Within the small hours this morning, Musk was as a substitute tweeting cryptically about Twitter’s potential for “enchancment”.