Twitter is asking parts of its workforce back after a wave of layoffs

Twitter just won’t calm down. After recently laying off half of its workforce via email, the company is now trying to bring dozens of employees back.

Ever since the announcement of Elon Musk’s takeover on Twitter, things just haven’t gotten boring around the social network. And even if you think about some news that it can’t get any more absurd, you’re always taught a lesson.

This week too: the company only laid off half of its workforce on Friday, November 4, 2022. Now dozens of former employees are being asked to come back like the news agency Bloomberg reported.

Twitter: What went wrong?

On Friday, thousands of employees received an email with the subject “Your role on Twitter”. It included the following sentence: “Today is your last working day in our company.”

But that doesn’t seem to apply to all employees who received this email. Because how Bloomberg citing two insiders, the company is now trying to persuade dozens to return.

Why is Twitter bringing back parts of the workforce?

But why is the group now trying to reverse dozens of layoffs? Noisy Bloomberg some employees are said to have been accidentally dismissed. Others were fired “before management realized” that their work and experience could benefit Elon Musk’s plans.

Just a few days ago, Elon Musk announced the changes to the Twitter Blue subscription program. The company already introduced this over the weekend.

Among other things, subscribers should receive their verification via the blue tick via this premium subscription for $7.99 per month. The platform also wants to halve advertising for users and allow longer video and audio contributions.

New Twitter Blue has launched

However, the platform had to back down again. Then as the New York Times reportedthe changes in terms of verification should be postponed.

Users and staff had expressed concerns about the upcoming US midterm elections. Paid verification for Blue subscribers can cause confusion. Users could “impersonate President Biden or legislators or news outlets and post false information about election results.”

To prevent this and to protect the midterm elections on Tuesday, Twitter wants to postpone the changes for verification until after the election.

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