{"id":88729,"date":"2022-11-14T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88729"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:10:41","slug":"four-thousand-contract-workers-are-laid-off-by-musk-led-twitter-after-firing-50-of-its-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/four-thousand-contract-workers-are-laid-off-by-musk-led-twitter-after-firing-50-of-its-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Four thousand contract workers are laid off by Musk-led Twitter after firing 50% of its workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk may have laid off 4,400 contractual workers at Twitter days after he took over the company and fired about 50 percent of its workforce &#8211; about 3,800 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system. Contractors are not being notified at all, just losing access to Slack and email,&#8221; tweeted Platformer&#8217;s Casey Newton. &#8220;Their leaders did not communicate with them,&#8221; he wrote. The new wave of layoffs started over the weekend have not been responded to by Musk or Twitter.<br \/><br \/>People who suddenly lost access to Twitter&#8217;s internal systems discovered they were no longer employed by the company. One manager posted on the company&#8217;s internal Slack messaging platform, &#8220;A contractor just got deactivated without notice in the middle of changing our child safety workflows.&#8221; According to Engadget, many contractors ended up on teams without full-time staff following Twitter&#8217;s earlier layoffs, which left them without anyone to sign off on their timesheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk may have laid off 4,400 contractual workers at Twitter days after he took over the company and fired about 50 percent of its workforce &#8211; about 3,800 employees. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system. Contractors are not being notified at all, just losing access to Slack and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,99,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-technology","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88731,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729\/revisions\/88731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}