 November 4, 2022 All staff were told to expect an email with the subject 'Your Role at Twitter' by 4 pm UK time on Friday. 'If your employment is not impacted, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email,' said the memo. 'If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification with next steps via your personal email,' The email also said that Twitter's offices would be temporarily closed and all badge access suspended in order 'to help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data'. About 7,500 jobs from San Francisco to Singapore hang in the balance as Twitter's new boss Elon Musk plans to cut about half the workforce to slash costs and impose a demanding new work ethic. Twitter employees say the company is eliminating workers without enough notice in violation of federal and California law. The company is being sued){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
It’s a sad day for Twitter staff who have woken up to find out that they’ve been logged out of their work laptops and email overnight.
Twitter staff in the UK were still asleep when their laptops were remotely wiped and building access revoked.
‘Can’t log into emails. Mac won’t turn on. But so grateful this is happening at 3am. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness on the timing front guys…’ tweeted Chris Younie, a Twitter employee who worked in entertainment partnerships.
Simon Balmain, a senior community manager for the platform in the UK, tweeted that he had been remotely logged out of his work laptop and removed from the company’s Slack messaging service.