Last Friday, the microblogging platform Twitter laid off half of its employees after the acquisition of the company with 44 billionmillions dollars from Elon Musk and the firing of the CEO, CFO and head of legal policy.
In a sudden reversal, however, the company is now asking dozens of its laid-off employees to return.
According to one publication of Bloomberg, some of those being asked to return were accidentally fired. They left before management realized that their work and experience could be essential to creating the new features Musk envisions.
Casey Newton of Platformer News Agency he even mentions that a Twitter employee asked his colleagues to ask those who were fired if they would return.
As of today, Twitter has about 3.700 employees, according to people familiar with the matter. These people are being pressured by “Chief Twit” Elon Musk to move quickly to publicize the news capabilities, γεγονός που είχε ως αποτέλεσμα ορισμένοι υπάλληλοι να κοιμούνται στο γραφείο για να τηρήσουν τις προθεσμίες. Ένα από αυτά τα χαρακτηριστικά είναι η ανανεωμένη συνδρομή Twitter Blue, η οποία θα επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να έχουν ένα blue tick their profile for $8, among other things.
Meanwhile, those who have been fired are fighting back by suing the company for not notifying them before they were fired.
Musk also revealed that Twitter has had a "massive drop" in revenue since he took over the platform. Although he did not say how much the platform had lost, Companies the likes of General Motors, Audi, General Mills and IPG have already stopped advertising on the platform.
