![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/elon-musk-defends-firing-pregnant-woman-as-3700-twitter-employees-laid-off/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1_FILES-US-INTERNET-IT-PURCHASE-TWITTER.jpg&description=Elon Musk insisted he had "no choice" because Twitter was losing $4 million (£3.5million) a day and a shareholder has backed the bloodbathElon Musk completes his Twitter takeover in OctoberElon Musk has stressed he had "no choice" but to fire 3,700 Twitter employees in email, including a pregnant mother. The businessman, who completed the purchase of Twitter last week, said the social media brand is losing $4 million (£3.5 million) a day and insisted severance terms were generous to those employees laid off in a brutal worldwide cull. Most were told the news via email after Mr Musk, 51, promised to the press he'll make the company profitable. Since the cull, the Tesla founder said: "Regarding Twitter's reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day. "Everyone exited was offered three months of severance, which is 50 per cent more than legally required." Elon Musk arrives at Baron Investment Conference yesterday after buying Twitter ( Yuki Iwamura/AP/REX/Shutterstock) Rachel Bonn, a product marketing employee, discovered she was out of a job after being cut off from her Twitter issued laptop. The mum posted a picture online of her last day in the San Francisco office with her toddler. She tweeted: "Last Thursday in the SF office, really the last day Twitter was Twitter. "Eight months pregnant and have a nine-month-old. Just got cut off from laptop access." Mr Musk let more than 3,700 Twitter employees go in a brutal cull ( Yuki Iwamura/AP/REX/Shutterstock) Mr Musk spoke at an interview at the Baron Investment Conference at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan, New York City, just an hour before employees received the email in the cull. Talking to the press, Mr Musk laughed about the number of enemies he had and said the layoffs should save them $400 million (£350 million) a year, and doubled down on his plans to charge verified users $8 (£7) a month. The internal memo, sent to staff who have been fired, instructs the){kind=link}
Elon Musk insisted he had “no choice” because Twitter was losing $4 million (£3.5million) a day and a shareholder has backed the bloodbath
Elon Musk has stressed he had “no choice” but to fire 3,700 Twitter employees in email, including a pregnant mother.
The businessman, who completed the purchase of Twitter last week, said the social media brand is losing $4 million (£3.5 million) a day and insisted severance terms were generous to those employees laid off in a brutal worldwide cull.
Most were told the news via email after Mr Musk, 51, promised to the press he’ll make the company profitable.
Since the cull, the Tesla founder said: “Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.