Twitter’s wide-ranging layoffs include nearly 900 jobs in the Bay Area and about 1,000 total in California, a huge portion of the company’s local workforce, new state filings show.
The company’s disclosures to the state’s labor agency are the first official notices that reveal the impact in the Bay Area of the mammoth employment cutbacks new owner Elon Musk has orchestrated.
Musk said Friday he has “no choice” but to engineer huge layoffs to help Twitter climb out of a lake of red ink. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, apologized to the company’s employees in a tweet. “I realize many are angry with me,” he wrote. “I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly.”
