Elon Musk came back to the layoffs he made on Twitter and is asking some of the 3,700 workers laid off last week to return to work, the agency says. Bloomberg🇧🇷
The company claimed that several dozen employees have been accidentally laid off and stressed that they are very essential to the changes that the South African and Canadian multimillionaire wants to make.
Last week, Musk said Twitter is losing $4 million a day, justifying the layoff of staff.
Without specifying the total number of layoffs, Musk justified the decision at the time in a message published on that network: “there is no choice when the company loses about four million a day”.
Musk had already indicated on Friday that Twitter had registered a drastic drop in revenue, due to the departure of several advertisers because of “activist groups” that would have pressured companies to advertise.
As for the laid-off workers, Musk said they were all offered compensation equal to three months’ wages, or “50% more than required by law.”
However, some employees have already sued the company for unfair dismissal for failing to receive 60 days’ notice as required by the labor law in effect in San Francisco, where Twitter is based.
On the content moderation policy, Musk said it remains “absolutely unchanged,” adding, “contrary to what you might read in the press, at certain times of the week we’ve seen hate speech have dropped below our previous standards. “
The businessman championed an absolutist view of free speech, which critics believe could lead to a resurgence of abuses such as harassment, hate speech or misinformation.
Several groups have already decided to suspend ads on Twitter, such as US agri-food giant General Mills, US automaker General Motors and German competitor Volkswagen.
Source: DN
