Twitter employees warn Musk amid mass layoff news: Report

After reports emerged that Elon Musk is planning “to cut 75 per cent of Twitter staff if he takes over”, employees at the microblogging platform warned the tech billionaire that mass layoffs would be “reckless”.According to a report by TIME, as the deadline for Musk to finalise his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter approaches, an unidentified number of company employees wrote an open letter objecting to his proposal to fire up to 75 per cent of the company’s workforce.”Elon Musk’s plan to lay off 75 per cent of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation,” the letter reads.”A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation. We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats,” it added.The letter also includes a list of demands for the “current and future leadership” of the company.In addition to “fair severance policies for all workers”, letter writers want Musk to keep existing employee benefits in place, including remote work.The letter also suggests a potential ideological gap between some Twitter employees and Musk, who has expressed his preference for less moderation.