No mercy for Twitter staff in Africa
as of Friday 4th November, around 3 700 people. Twitter reportedly sent out emails to all of its staff individually informing them whether or not they would be on the chopping block.
However, these three-month severance packages have only been given to fired employees in the US. No “next steps” landed in the inboxes of Twitter’s African staff neither, termination emails were simply followed with radio silence. Reportedly, the emails did not even mention them by name.in 2021. Then still under co-founder Jack Dorsey, the move was part of the company’s global expansion plans.
In terms of staff to fill its African offices, Twitter indicated “We are looking for specialists to join several teams including product, design, engineering, marketing and communications.” “On Tuesday, after working remotely for about a year, Twitter’s African staff in Ghana finally opened a physical location. On Friday morning they were locked out of their Twitter accounts and their work notebooks. They then received email notifications on their personal accounts that they were being terminated,” says Madowo.
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