Twitter Cuts Half of Staff, Then Begs Some to Return
Twitter employees have had a rough year. The entire staff spent much of 2022 in limbo, wondering who would lead their company, only to eventually have CEO Elon Musk take over and immediately slash the company’s headcount in half. Less than two weeks after taking over the company, Musk laid off 3,750-person employees only to embarrassingly have to beg some of those same employees to return days later.
The November culling wasn’t Twitter’s first round off layoff of the year, but it was by far the most significant. In early June, the company moved to lay offaround 30% of its talent acquisition team. Prior to that Twitter had hinted at the potential for rough water earlier in the year when it froze most hirings and backfills.
Twitter employees, already drained from dealing with the on again, off again, attempts by the world’s richest person to acquire the company (and tank Twitter’s stock in the process) were faced with yet another stress point last month. In early June, the company moved to lay offaround 30% of its talent acquisition team. Twitter hinted at the potential for rough water earlier in the year when it froze most hirings and backfills.
