It's been chaotic with anything relating to Elon Musk and Twitter lately, and there's news about it yet again. It has been reported that some of the staff laid off by Twitter, are being asked to return.
According to Engadget, Twitter might've let employees go by accident, or they did not realize that they were important for building the features of the platform.
A tweet by @CaseyNewton quoted a message from Twitter Slack, stating that there is an opportunity for laid-off workers to come back. It also mentioned that they needed to put together names and rationales, before 4 PM PST on Sunday.
A report by Business Insider stated that five employees were invited back. The person who said it added, that Twitter realized they actually need the employees for Twitter's ecosystem to function. However, one of them rejected the offer, saying that they felt used and might just be fired again soon.
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Twitter laid off 3,800 employees last Friday. They waited for an email that decided their fate. If they received an email from Twitter through their personal mail, then they are out of a job. If they still have a job at the social networking company, they receive an email with the subject line "Your Role at Twitter."
They laid off half of the 7,500 staff, by the end of the day. The company claims that it was to put Twitter on a "healthy path," but since they're asking employees to come back, it was not so healthy after all.
The Tesla CEO defended his actions, saying that he had no choice. In a tweet, he stated that the company was losing over $4 million a day. He also added that the people who were laid off were offered three months of severance, indicating that it was 50% more than legally required.
Twitter Employees After the News of Workforce Reduction
Some of the employees can no longer access the IT system of Twitter, and they thought that might suggest they were already fired. The employees vented on social media, using the hashtag #OneTeam as they did.
One employee, a former senior community manager at Twitter, claimed that he was remotely logged out of his work laptop and removed from Slack. Another, Rachel Bonn, who was eight months pregnant and had a nine-month-old baby, said she also got cut off from laptop access.
Twitter's employees filed a class action lawsuit against the company, on the grounds that they implemented mass layoffs without a 60-day advance notice. It also stated that it was required by federal and California law, which is where the office operates.
The lawsuit also included asking San Francisco federal court to issue an order. The order states that Twitter should not be allowed to solicit signatures from employees, to sign documents without information about the pendency of the case, as mentioned in Euro News.
