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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Rachael Davies

Twitter employees hit out at Elon Musk’s plans to cut 75% of staff

Twitter employees have slated Elon Musk’s reported plans to replace or remove the jobs of 75 per cent of the social media platform’s workforce if his deal to buy it proceeds.

The billionaire’s plans, which were reported in The Washington Post last week, would account for 5,500 of the 7,500-strong workforce. Mr Musk previously described Twitter’s workforce as bloated, saying it had a “strong, left-wing bias”.

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