Jakarta –
Twitter Inc. laid off almost all of its employees in India or to be precise more than 90% of its employees employed in India. It’s part of a global layoff plan ordered by new owner Elon Musk.
Citing Bloomberg, Tuesday (8/11/2022) the company currently employed more than 200 people in India before the layoffs. Now the number of employees is estimated at only a dozen employees.
Around 70% of layoffs in India involve engineers and teams of engineers working on mandates around the world. Positions have also been cut in areas such as marketing, public policy and corporate communications.
Headquarter Twitter the San Francisco and California-based company also cut its global workforce by about half, or about 3,700 employees. Twitter’s India headquarters are located in New Delhi, the financial capital of Mumbai and Bangalore (technology hub of South India).
According to reports, India is a major growth engine for global internet service providers such as TwitterMeta Platforms Inc. and Google Alphabet Inc. building on a potentially large pool of new online users.
However, the company is also subject to increasingly strict content regulations aimed at reining in the country’s big tech companies. It is estimated that the company today only has around 3,700 employees worldwide.
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