Musk downsizes Twitter India team

THE RETRENCHED STAFF HAS BEEN TOLD THAT THE TERMS OF SEVERANCE WILL BE CONVEYED TO THEM NEXT WEEK

MUMBAI: Twitter began the process of laying off its India staff on Friday as part of its plan to cull 3800 jobs globally following Elon Musk’s takeover.

In India, Twitter operates from Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore and employs close to 300 people. The staff in these three cities received a carefullyworded mail saying their roles had been “potentially impacted.” Initially it left many employees baffled whether they had been officially fired or not.

An employee at the microblogging site’s Delhi office who received this mail told HT that within a short time of receiving the mail he lost access to his official email account and slack account. The retrenched staff has been told that the terms of severance will be conveyed to them next week. The employee who requested that his name and department be kept out of print added that the staff had also been asked to refrain from commenting publicly on the layoffs.

“Twitter’s employees across the globe had received an email on Thursday that they will be notified on their personal email ids if their role has been affected,” said the staffer who has been with the company for the last two years.