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Twitter India laid off the majority of staff from engineering, sales, media teams in the form of mass layoffs


Twitter has laid off the majority of its more than 200 employees in India as part of a round of global layoffs at the behest of new owner Elon Musk, who is looking to make a $44 billion acquisition. USD (nearly 3,61,600 crore).

The layoffs were in the engineering, sales and marketing, and communications teams, sources said.

However, there is still no clear information on the severance package to be paid to laid-off employees in India.

The entire marketing and communications department in India has been laid off, the sources said.

World’s richest businessman Musk start his turn at Twitter last week by firing Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal as well as Chief Financial Officer and several other top executives.

Followed by the departure of the top management. Musk has now begun a major exercise to reduce the company’s global workforce.

“The layoffs have started. Some of my colleagues have received email about this,” a Twitter India employee told PTI on condition of anonymity.

Another source said the layoffs affected a “significant portion” of the Indian team.

Full details of the job cuts were not immediately available.

Twitter India did not respond to email queries.

The US-based social media platform, in an internal email to employees earlier, said, “In our efforts to put Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult difficult to reduce the global workforce on Friday.” It says “everyone will receive a personalized email”.

The company will temporarily close all offices to ensure the safety of employees as well as the Twitter system and customer data.

“If you are at the office or on your way to the office, please come home,” Twitter said.

While Twitter has several agreements with the government on freedom of expression, the company in the email banned employees from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere. other.

The company is said to have laid off 3,738 of its 7,500 employees globally.


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