Twitter Lays Off Manager Who Slept on Office Floor After Musk Takeover
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3adxyv/twitter-lays-off-manager-who-slept-on-office-floor-after-musk-takeover
Twitter has completed yet another round of layoffs following billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of the site last year, and this time even some dedicated loyalists to the new regime have been axed.
Musk's takeover kicked off with a purge of the site's top leadership, followed by installing or elevating people who would be loyal to his whims, such as new head of trust and safety Ella Irwin. Loaded with debt after the $44 billion sale, and with advertising revenues dropping, Twitter went from over 7,000 employees to under 2,000, with the remaining crew being told by Musk to be "extremely hardcore" and put in "long hours at high intensity." Bedrooms were installed at the office, which Musk reportedly stayed in.