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Twitter employees will find out if they have been laid off later today – a week after Elon Musk takes over.

The social network’s offices are temporarily closed and workers will find out their fates at 4pm UK time.

Those who are losing their jobs will receive a message to their personal email address, while the remaining employees will receive an email to their work account.

“In our efforts to put Twitter on a healthy path, we’ll get through the tough process of reducing our global workforce on Friday,” an internal memo said.

Twitter said its offices would be temporarily closed and all badge access would be suspended “to help ensure the safety of individual employees and the Twitter system and customer data.”

It comes after the company moved to reassure employees last month that it had no plans for mass redundancies after US media reported that Mr Musk wanted to make 75% of its 7,500 workforce redundant. excess after $44 billion (£38.4 billion) ) Undertaken.

However, The Washington Post reports that job cuts are inevitable, and announced plans to cut about $ 800 million in Twitter’s salaries by the end of next year.

Other reports since then suggest Mr Musk ordered Twitter’s teams to save up to $1bn (£895m) in annual infrastructure cost savings.

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