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Oct 21, 2022

Elon Musk could fire 5,000 employees at Twitter due to ‘bloat’

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Tesla CEO sees Twitter as a ‘bloated’ organization, employing far more people for its revenues.

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has entered an interesting stage where he can sit down with the company’s lawyers and iron out a deal. However, the deal could see 5,000 employees facing the axe at Twitter, Washington Post.

Difficult times at Twitter.


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Twitter currently employs 7,500 workers, and documents accessed by the media outlet show that Musk plans to trim down the workforce by as much as 75 percent, down to a skeleton staff of just 2,000. In internal Slack channels, employees have reacted to this news with anger, WaPo reported.

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