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Elon Musk began to terminate employees late Thursday, several people told Insider.
Access to work platforms was suddenly cut off.
The move came just hours after an email went out telling workers to expect layoffs to begin Friday.
Twitter employees began losing access to work platforms soon after the now-Elon Musk-owned company told them to expect layoffs to begin the following day.
Workers suddenly started to get locked out of things like Slack a little after 8 p.m. PT on Thursday night, multiple employees told Insider. They assumed they could count themselves among the expected 3,700 of their colleagues expected to be hit with Musk’s planned layoffs.
“It’s going East to West,” one person said. People working for Twitter in London were first to find out, then New York, with California, Twitter’s biggest hub, after that, multiple employees said.
“My entire team is gone,” one person affected by the layoffs said.
Just hours before, Twitter staffers received their first communication from the company. It was an email explaining that they could expect layoffs to begin on Friday, sent after Insider reported such plans.
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