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Unacademy gives pink slips to 350 employees in second round of layoffs

CEO Gaurav Munjal apologises to staff, says market challenges forced relook at commitment of no layoffs

After firing half of Twitter's workers, Musk now asks some to return

Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves

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Hiring of top-level professionals slowing down in Indian startups: Report

In most startups, the CEOs are now participating in the hiring process for senior-level professionals

We condemn the decision, says Ashwini Vaishnaw on Twitter firings

According to sources, the hit was even more strident in India, as nearly 180 of its 230 employees were given the pink slip with immediate effect

Is Elon Musk rewriting the HR rulebook at Twitter?

Elon Musk is facing backlash for unceremoniously expelling so many employees from Twitter. Is Musk setting a new trend where owners can brush aside the HR rulebook and write their own edicts?

Top headlines: Meta prepares for mass-layoff, Musk calls back fired workers

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'No choice', says Elon Musk as he justifies massive layoffs at Twitter

Amid massive layoffs at Twitter across the world, including in India, and the subsequent backlash, the microblogging site's new owner Elon Musk on Saturday justified the move, saying there was "no choice" when the company was losing millions of dollars daily. The company posted a net loss of USD 270 million in the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 compared to a profit of USD 66 million in the same period a year ago. "Regarding Twitter's reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day," Musk tweeted. "Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required," he added. Hundreds of employees were handed the pink slips at Twitter on Friday as Musk, 51, started overhauling the social media platform which he bought for a whopping USD 44 billion late last month. In a letter to employees obtained by multiple media outlets on Friday, the company said employees would find out by 9 am Pacific Standard Time if th

Human Rights to Accessibility Experience: Key Twitter teams axed by Musk

Days after taking control of Twitter, Elon Musk, on Friday, began firing hundreds of employees in departments across the company.As per Tech Crunch, key Twitter teams including Human Rights, Accessibility, Al Ethics and Curation have been axed so far by the Tesla CEO.The particular news was also confirmed by fired employees on social media. Many posted farewell messages confirming that they have been let go under the mass layoff at Twitter by the microblogging site's new boss Musk.Human RightsIn a tweet, former Twitter Human Rights Counsel Shannon Raj Singh shared news that the company's human rights team was eliminated on Friday."Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company. I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and to defend the needs of those ...

Top Headlines: FM likely to begin pre-Budget talks, Musk defends layoffs

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Job cuts at Twitter spur concerns about US midterms, human rights

Product and engineering teams were gutted by well over 50%, according to two sources, and other groups - like communications, marketing, human rights and diversity - were almost completely eliminated

As job cuts begin at Twitter, Elon Musk decries 'massive' sales drop

The global workforce reductions are expected to affect 3,700 jobs - about half of the company.

Lawyer suing Twitter over layoffs says Elon Musk trying to comply

Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan said she "will be monitoring the situation" at Twitter to ensure employees receive appropriate notice and compensation.

Twitter lays off staff as Musk blames activists for massive ad revenue drop

Tweets by the company staff said teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were among those gutted, as were some product and engineering teams

Twitter layoffs likely set back the company's recent diversity gains

The firings of about half of the staff on Friday also may hit hard: The leaders of several of Twitter's diversity-focused groups were part of the job cuts, according to people familiar with the matter

Elon Musk defends layoffs, says Twitter losing over $4 million a day

Twitter employees were notified in an email that the layoffs were set to begin. Musk is expected to cut roughly half of Twitter's roughly 7,500-person workforce.

350 employees in Udaan to get pink slip in pursuit of profitability

India's largest business-to-business e-commerce firm sacked 180 employees in June

Twitter fires majority of employees in India as part of global layoffs

The lay-offs in India were across segments such as policy, communication, engineering and development, said sources in the know

B2B unicorn Udaan fires around 350 employees on cost cutting measures

B2B unicorn udaan has fired 300-350 employees across India on account of role redundancies and cost cutting measures, according to sources. Few of the employees told PTI that they were intimated about the layoff on Friday morning and told that the human resource department will reach out to them for final paperwork. Sources aware of the development said around 300-350 people have been laid off from the company. When contacted, udaan confirmed the development without sharing the number of employees hit by the decision. "As we move forward in our journey towards making udaan a profitable company, the efficiency enhancement drive and the evolution in business model has created some redundancies in the system, with some roles no longer required. As a responsible organisation, we are working towards providing all requisite support to the impacted employees," a company spokesperson said. The spokesperson said over the last few years, udaan has made significant investments to build a ...

Twitter starts laying off employees in India as part of global job cuts

Twitter has started laying off employees in India as part of a global job cut ordered by the social media platform's new owner Elon Musk to attain economies of scale and make the USD 44 billion acquisition viable. World's richest businessman Musk began his innings at Twitter last week by firing the CEO Parag Agrawal as well as the CFO and some other top executives. This was followed by an exodus of top management. Musk has now started a massive exercise to downsize the company's global workforce. "Lay-off has started. Some of my colleagues have received email notification regarding this," a Twitter India employee told PTI on condition of anonymity. Another source said the lay-offs have affected a "significant chunk" of the India team. The full details of the job cuts were not immediately available. Twitter India did not respond to email queries. The US-based social media platform, in an internal email to employees earlier, had said, "In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy pa