Elon Musk is beginning mass layoffs at Twitter, sharply reducing the company’s workforce of 7,500. Musk assumed ownership of Twitter last week after striking a deal to buy the website for $44 billion this spring. He has decried a relaxed work environment he has described as too relaxed. The layoffs decision came after a week-long assessment of Twitter, where Musk and his deputies imposed a product freeze that stopped development on Twitter’s internal projects, brought in Tesla engineers to review Twitter’s code, and left workers anxiously waiting in a vacuum of information on the company’s direction and leadership. Twitter employees said tearful goodbyes, exchanged contact information and tried to make their documentation easily accessible for the staff who were to remain,. . . .
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