{"id":148638,"date":"2022-10-21T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/elon-musk-could-fire-5000-employees-at-twitter-due-to-bloat"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:24:27","slug":"elon-musk-could-fire-5000-employees-at-twitter-due-to-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/elon-musk-could-fire-5000-employees-at-twitter-due-to-bloat","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk could fire 5,000 employees at Twitter due to \u2018bloat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-could-fire-5000-employees-at-twitter-due-to-bloat3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO sees Twitter as a \u2018bloated\u2019 organization, employing far more people for its revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover has entered an interesting stage where he can sit down with the company\u2019s lawyers and iron out a deal. However, the deal could see 5,000 employees facing the axe at Twitter, Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Difficult times at Twitter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Heisenberg Media\/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter currently employs 7,500 workers, and documents accessed by the media outlet show that Musk plans to trim down the workforce by as much as 75 percent, down to a skeleton staff of just 2,000. In internal Slack channels, employees have reacted to this news with anger, WaPo reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO sees Twitter as a \u2018bloated\u2019 organization, employing far more people for its revenues. Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover has entered an interesting stage where he can sit down with the company\u2019s lawyers and iron out a deal. However, the deal could see 5,000 employees facing the axe at Twitter, Washington Post. Difficult times at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}