Elon Musk Plans to Cut Twitter's Workforce By 75%: Washington Post

Elon Musk is planning to cut 75% of Twitter Inc.'s workforce when he takes control of the social network, according to the Washington Post. Kurt Wagner reports on Bloomberg Television.

[tlanimass]

75% of the workforce, means there are still going to be 2, 000 people left at Twitter. As a reminder, WeChat was running with only 35 people...Instagram had 6 people before Facebook bought them for $1 billion.

[sirennoir]

He will gut 75 percent of the workforce and lose absolutely nothing of value.

[badluckjames]

I've worked at many tech company in the past 20+ years and can't imagine why Twitter need 5k+ employees. This is probably why they're not profitable. They probably all work no more than 5 hours a week if that.

[LH]

“Well that’s just mean.” 😂😂😂😂😂 What a masterful argument.

[njdqbeg]

I love it. These kids who “work” there now are about to get a big dose of reality.

[EdwardLewisIV]

He could layoff 90% and it would still be fine. They've been a public company since 2013 and added absolutely zero new products or tech since then. They need to retool with a focus on product development instead of platform moderation.

[andio]

Based on my personal work experience in corporate america, I think it's fair to say a properly incentivized good employee can do the job of 2-3 bad employees.

[jimbojimbo]

This is actually hilarious

Twitter HATED him for so long and now he bought the company and is culling them lmao

[bob___]

Twitter could be operated by computers and a staff for selling ad space.

[hzt]

Good call by Elon, 75% of dead weight removed will do the company good.

[paulhaube]

There will be a few disgruntled employees who will attempt to sabotage or disrupt things.

[thebrilliantmrpedro]

“This is mean…” for Twitter but not other companies that do the same? 😂

[davidpells]

My advice to Elon, don’t lay off 75%, lay off 100%, then let every single one who still wishes to work for Twitter to re apply and state why they can still be useful . For those who do stay they will have to be shown around the office . Most don’t know what it looks like and I’m afraid Musk is against working from home .

[southstar]

Elon only needs 5% staff and he'd be fine

[SDZ]

The bots do a better job than all the woke employees at Twitter anyways.

[MakotoMajima]

wish we could cut Washington Posts workforce by 100%

[pinifernia]

Twitter can be built by one developer in two weeks. Elon Musk is spot on and cutting the fat. Get rid of all managers, just keep good developers and testers.

[Kenny-bjzq]

A lot of Chiefs are going to be unemployed

[danieldpa]

Well, 75% are the woke lazy ballast that needs to leave ship so the company can focus again on doing business. The 80/20 pareto works everywhere

[mikemarcus]

You know you could work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting thousands of dollars in a meme coin and now they are multimillionaires.