Twitter’s S’pore workplace hit by layoffs amid wider job cuts

SINGAPORE – Twitter workers worldwide waited nervously on Friday to search out out their destiny by means of an e-mail as job cuts swept across the social media company.

These from the Singapore workplace weren’t spared. The Straits Occasions understands that job cuts spanned numerous groups, together with the engineering, gross sales and advertising groups.

A Singapore worker who declined to be named described the temper since every week in the past as one among nice concern and uncertainty.

“We stored dismissing these rumours because of the lack of official communication till the e-mails got here on this morning,” the worker mentioned.

“This was particularly so when the C-suites bought fired or resigned, leading to a scarcity of top-level administration to disseminate info to the remainder of the workers.”

In an inside e-mail on Friday morning seen by ST, the corporate mentioned the cuts are “an effort to put Twitter on a wholesome path”.

A second e-mail later notified workers of their destiny.

Those that get to maintain their jobs acquired a notification through their work e-mail. However those that are being let go have been notified of the subsequent steps of their personal e-mail.

It’s unclear what number of Singapore workers have been laid off.

On social media, workers have been additionally seen tweeting utilizing the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked and a saluting emoji to say they’re leaving.