Twitter Fires 80% of Contractor Employees With No Formal Notice

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There are reports that approximately 4,400 contract employees out of 5,500 were laid off by Twitter.

Some employees had no idea until they read about it on Twitter.

The first report was tweeted by Casey Newton, journalist with Platformer and host of a NYTimes podcast.

He tweeted.

“Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others”

A Twitter data scientist responded that this has just happened to them:

This just happened to me. I work(ed) in content moderation in political misinformation.

— Melissa Ingle (@mingle74) November 13, 2022

Additionally he tweeted that contractors received no notice, similar to some of the regular employees who only found out they were fired after discovering they had lost access to company emails and Slack channels.

Casey tweeted an update:

“Contractors aren’t being notified at all, they’re just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system.

They heard nothing from their leaders”

He followed up with:

“One manager just posted in Slack:”one of my contractors just got deactivated without notice in the middle of making critical changes to our child safety workflows”

Working to learn more, email me for my Signal.”

A fired contractor messaged Casey to confirm the poor treatment given to the fired contractors.

Casey posted a screenshot of the message from a fired Twitter contractor:

“I’m a contractor you’re reporting is accurate. I just learned I was laid off by reading your tweets and then trying to log in on slack and email and realized i was all gone.”

Casey followed up on Sunday with a tweet that offered a picture of the scale of the firings, indicating that approximately 80% of the contractor workforce was fired.

Update: company sources tell me that…

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