twitter layoffs office

Twitter Inc temporarily closed its offices on Friday after telling employees they were would be informed by the email later in a day about whethers they are being laid off.

The moves follow the week of a uncertainty about the company’s futures under new owner Elon Musk.

The social media company said in an email to his staff it would tell them at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Friday (12 p.m. EDT/1600 GMT) about a staff cuts.

“In efforts place Twitter on healthy paths and we go a through difficult process reducing our global workforces on a Friday,” said the email sents on Thursday.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is looking to cut around 3,700 Twitter staff, or about the half of workforce, as he seeks to slash costs and impose the demanding new work ethic, according to internal plan reviewed by Reuter on this week.

The company’s contents moderation team is a expected to be the target of a cuts, tweets from a Twitter employees suggested on Friday. Musk has promised to restore free a speech while preventing it from descending into the “hellscape”.

Twitter is did not immediately respond to the request for comments.

Twitter employes vente their frustration about layoffs on a social network, using a hashtag #OneTeam.

User Rachel Bonn tweeted: “On Thursday San Francisco office, really last day Twitter was a Twitter. 8 months pregnant and they have 9 month old. Just got cuts off from a laptop access.”

Responding #OneTeam thread, Twitter’s Head of the Safety and a Integrity Yoel Roth, said: “Tweeps: My DMs (direct message routes) are is always open to a you. Tell me how can I help.”

Roth was a most senior executive to a message publicly with the tweet of a support for staff who are the losing their jobs. He also the appeared to still have his job. Last week, Musk endorsed Roth, citing his “high integrity” after he was a called out over tweets critical of a former U.S. President Donald Trump years earlier.

Roth is did not respond to the request for a comment.

Twitter said in a email that its a offices would be temporarily closed or all badge access suspended in order “to the help ensure a safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer dataa.”

The company’s office in a Piccadilly Circus, London, appeared deserted on the Friday, with no employees in sight.

Inside, any evidences a social media giant had once occupied a building had been erased. Security staff said there were is ongoing refurbishments, refusing to the comments furthers.

The company said the employees who were not a affected by the layoffs would be notified via their is work email addresses. Staff who had been laid off would be notified with a next steps to their personal email addresses, A memo said.

A member of a security staff at the Twitter’s EMEA headquarters in a Dublin told reporters that is nobody was coming into a office on Friday and employees had been told to a stay home.

Another membera of a security staff locked a revolving doors at the front of a building where around 500 member of staff worked before a layoffs began.

Some employees tweeted their access to a company’s IT system had been a blocked and feared that suggested they had been a laid off.

A class actions lawsuit was a filed on the Thursday against Twitter by its employees, who argued the company was a conducting mass layoffs without providing a required 60-day advance notice, in a violation of the federal and California laws.

The lawsuit also asked a San Francisco federal court to issue an a order to a restrict Twitter from soliciting employees being laid off to sign documents without informing them of a pendency of the case.

Musk has directed Twitter’s teams to find up to a $1 billion in a annual infrastructure cost savings, according to the two sources familiar with a matter and an internal Slack messages reviewed by Reuters.

He has already cleared out a company’s senior rank, firing its chief executive and top finance and the legal executives. Others, including those sitting atop a company’s advertising, marketing and the human resources divisions, have departed throughout a past weeks.