Casey Newton of Platformer says that Twitter fired many contract workers on Saturday. Between 4,400 and 5,500 people lost their jobs.
Platformer pointed out, and other reports from Axios and CNBC confirmed, that most contract employees didn’t know they were fired until they couldn’t access the company’s email or internal communication systems.
The job cuts come after Twitter let go of about half of its employees and 15 percent of its trust and safety team through layoffs. The platformer was the first to report on the mass firings on Saturday night.
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They affected US-based and international employees in content moderation, real estate, marketing, engineering, and others.
Managers didn’t know their coworkers had been fired until they saw that their accounts had been deactivated in Twitter’s system. This is because Twitter didn’t tell managers about these job cuts. Insider got a copy of an internal email sent to contractors, which says that the job cuts are part of a “reprioritization and savings exercise.”
Insider says that contractors got the email when they discovered they’d been locked out of their accounts. It also tells workers that their last day is Monday, November 14, but they won’t have to do anything after that.
