Twitter Layoffs

Musk’s legal woes: More legal trouble for Musk, Twitter sued again for violating laws during layoffs

Elon Musk and Twitter are already facing several cases for wrongful termination of employees when Musk unceremoniously fired thousands of employees. A new group of contract workers are now suing Musk for not giving them any notice before the termination.

Musk got managers at Twitter to list their best employees for promotion, then fired the managers

Twitter is in utter chaos. After Elon Musk fired a bunch of top-level managers last month, some of the best developers at Twitter are occupied with administrative tasks, and are getting less time to code. This comes at a time when Twitter is short on developers.

Elon Musk mocks former Twitter employee who asked about his job status

Twitter recently sacked about 200 employees or 10 percent of its workforce. The company's workforce has shrunk by almost 70 per cent since Musk took over last year.

Explained: What led to the massive outage at Twitter?

Twitter on Monday suffered a brief but unprecedented outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites. Experts say the company is running on a skeleton staff, leaving the platform vulnerable to outages as well as disinformation

One engineer took down Twitter, caused Monday's outage because of Musk’s steep layoffs

Twitter has just about 500 engineers left with the organisation. The most recent Twitter outage that happened on Monday was caused by a faulty software package that was being installed by an employee.

After layoffs, Elon Musk announces massive bonuses, stock awards for remaining Twitter staff

Looks like Elon Musk is finally happy with the current people remaining at Twitter. Musk will be giving away massive bonuses and stock awards to Twitter employees, although what will be the value of the stock, remains to be seen.

Twitter in freefall: After firing 50 top executives on the weekend, Musk sacks 200 more workers

Elon Musk has fired over 250 employees or roughly 10 per cent of Twitter's current workforce. Esther Crawford, the person heading Twitter Blue and Twitter Payments, and one of Musk's most vocal supporters was also fired during the latest round of Twitter layoffs

Musk's fiefdom: Twitter CEO continues to fire people randomly, give aggressive, arbitrary deadlines

Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to fire people randomly, and assign super-aggressive deadlines. For example, he plans to completely revamp how ads work on Twitter in just a week, an activity that realistically will take at least a month.

Elon Musk’s fiefdom: Chief Twit fires Twitter engineer for falling engagement on his personal profile

Elon Musk was told by his team of engineers that the reason for falling engagement on his personal Twitter account was due to a slightly reduced popularity and virality, based on data and numbers. Upon learning this, Musk fired the engineer who tried to explain this to him

Twitter's laid-off workers cannot pursue claims via class-action lawsuit, will need to sue individually, rules judge

Citing contracts that employees had signed with Twitter, a judge has ruled that employees who were fired by Elon Musk cannot sue the company in a class-action lawsuit, and will need to pursue their claims individually.