Inside Twitter's chaotic short-notice layoffs

Twitter was plunged into turmoil Friday after Elon Musk's team started laying off wide swaths of the company's workforce.

Twitter was plunged into turmoil Friday after Elon Musk's team started laying off wide swaths of the company's workforce, infuriating employees and rattling a technology industry already grappling with an economic downturn.

The mass layoffs were documented in part on the social media platform itself, where many employees appeared to rally together in solidarity under the #OneTeam hashtag, and the blue heart and the salute emojis.

Employees commiserated in Slack channels, and some found themselves abruptly locked out of their email accounts, according to six workers who spoke to NBC News and CNBC. All requested that their names be withheld, citing fears of professional retribution or losing their severance pay.

"Elon will own a company without employees," a source inside Twitter told CNBC.

In a post Friday evening, Musk, said there was "no choice" but to lay off employees, who he said were offered three months of severance.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitters-chaotic-short-notice-layoffs-rcna55661

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