Twitter May Already Be Asking Some Laid-Off Workers To Come Back

Tech journalist Casey Newton got his hands on alleged internal Slack messages at Twitter, which suggest that managers are trying to contact some of the fired employees, asking if they would be interested in coming back, or if any of their former colleagues would be open to re-joining the company. Apparently, the managers tasked with bringing back the terminated employees were on a Sunday deadline to compile a list of folks interested in a return.

But it’s reasonable to assume that many won’t be enthusiastic about going back. Under Musk, teams are said to be working at a frantic pace to ship products and have already had perks like monthly paid rests canceled. Musk’s mercurial leadership style has created a culture shift at Twitter that may serve as another deterrent. However, those are not the only hurdles.

Even before the layoffs began, Twitter employees concerned about their uncertain future left the company and were happily lapped up by the likes of Meta and Google. The Wall Street Journal now reports that startups loaded with venture capital funding are scooping up former Twitter employees across engineering, AI development, and customer care departments. Interestingly, in the past few days, Twitter has posted multiple new job openings via LinkedIn based at the company’s offices in San Francisco and elsewhere. The opportunities range from department leads and product managers to ad marketing experts and UX designers, among others.