More engineers, product managers and data scientists are working at Twitter as another layoff cut 10% of its remaining staff, according to The New York Times. Multiple sources familiar with the matter told The Times that 200 employees were affected.
On Saturday night, some employees found themselves nearly out of a job after being abruptly logged out of their corporate email accounts and laptops, much like Twitter’s November layoffs. Currently, he is estimated to have less than 2,000 employees remaining.
Among those affected is Esther Crawford, who enthusiastically embraced Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s vision of Twitter 2.0. It reportedly cited Twitter Payments, a product that supports peer-to-peer payments and e-commerce on its platform, as a product that would prevent Twitter from going bankrupt. It’s unclear if the product is still a top priority amid Twitter’s lingering financial troubles, reports The Times.
Ars could not reach Twitter or Crawford for comment.
Crawford, who was once criticized for being a “boot tricker” by a former senior Twitter staff member,murmured She said she was “very proud of the team for going through so much noise and chaos”. She also said, “Watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is the worst way to look at it and see that my optimism and hard work were wrong.”
Several lawsuits have been filed by staff affected by Twitter’s mass layoffs. These former staffers allege they were offered severance packages that were less than they owed. The package will be even more expensive. The Times reports that they are very expensive, and a source familiar with what is included in their severance package said more people on Twitter would fire them than keep them on staff. We anticipate that it may cost
The former staff member who filed the lawsuit alleges that Twitter unfairly discriminated against women, people on family leave, and people with disabilities during layoffs. Twitter has so far successfully pushed most of these lawsuits out of court and into individual arbitration with the company.
Musk accused of laying off accessibility team
Just before Twitter announced this latest layoff on Saturday, Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) wrote to Musk on Friday to rehire the accessibility team, which was completely cut during previous layoffs. urged Mask to do so.
this team previously advocated This includes sharing insights on how to make everything from emojis to ads more accessible to “about 1 billion people around the world with some kind of disability”.
Markey said Musk’s decision to fire Twitter’s accessibility team last year and his recent decision to charge for access to Twitter’s application programming interface eliminated features that many users rely on. rice field. This includes adding automatic alt text to images and automatically generating Closed He captions in Twitter Spaces.
The results were “devastating,” Markey told Musk. He argued that Twitter has never done a perfect job when it comes to accessibility issues, but that it’s gotten worse under Musk.
“All of these changes under your leadership show a disregard for the needs of people with disabilities,” Markey wrote. Many have already turned away completely.”
Marquee has until March 17th to explain to Musk why Twitter is discontinuing its accessibility team, find out if Twitter is committed to rehiring the team, and address Twitter’s overlooked needs reported by users. I’ve outlined how to deal with it.
“We strongly encourage Twitter’s accessibility team to reactivate immediately and take all necessary steps to promote accessibility,” Markey wrote.
