(Reuters) – Twitter will announce to its employees whether or not their jobs will be cut by 9:00 Pacific time (16:00 GMT) on Friday, according to an internal email sent Thursday, another week-long episode of uncertainty about the future of the social network since its acquisition by Elon Musk.
“To put Twitter on the right track, we will have to begin a difficult process on Friday to reduce our workforce,” reads the email that Reuters was able to see.
The Bloomberg agency reported Friday that employees of the social network have filed a class action lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court against Elon Musk’s plan to lay off about half of the workforce, on the grounds that their employer work violated California and federal laws by length. notice before dismissal.
The social network also explains in the email that its offices will be temporarily closed and that access badges will be disabled in order to “guarantee the safety of each employee as well as of Twitter systems and customer data”.
Employees who will keep their jobs will be notified by email sent to their professional email address, those who will be fired will receive a message on their personal email address, it is specified.
The job cuts come after billionaire Elon Musk bought the social network for $ 44 billion and called for deep cost cuts and imposed a new aggressive corporate culture.
According to two sources familiar with the matter, as well as exchanges via the Slack internal professional messaging service that Reuters was able to read, Elon Musk asked Twitter teams to find up to $ 1 billion (about $ 1 billion) all over the world. year in infrastructure savings.
(Report Sheila Dang, Katie Paul, Paresh Dave, Fanny Potkin and Shivani Tanna in Bangalore; French version Camille Raynaud and Myriam Rivet, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
