Elon Musk's Twitter identifies thousands of staff who will be laid off

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Elon Musk's Twitter has identified thousands of employees who will be laid off

of everyone in their departments and choosing between who should be kept at the company and who could be laid off. Those lists were then sent to Musk and his transition team, including his personal lawyer Alex Spiro, as Insider reported.

While employees have been kept largely in the dark about anything that's occurred during Musk's first few days as, layoffs are now expected to take place on Friday, the two people familiar with the company's plans said, possibly around midday. The people who spoke with Insider asked not to be identified discussing private matters.

Should any layoffs amount to the 3,700-plus people said to have been selected as of Wednesday, that would see about 50% of Twitter's workforce let go. After headcount swelled in June to around 8,200 at the company,after Musk moved to acquire it, Insider reported, leaving it with 7,500 people as of late September.

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Yes it's shocking that layoffs can happen in an inflation plagued recession. Anyway, I'm sure that Business Insider will be glad to hire a bunch of those folks.

It’s a start.

And none too soon!

not so funny if someone go postal.

Fantastic bye bye !!!

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