Twitter fires African staff – media

Twitter fires African staff – media

The employees were reportedly ‘insulted’ to receive impersonal letters from management telling them they were fired

Social media giant Twitter has laid off almost all of its employees in Ghana, its sole African office, citing financial issues, according to multiple news reports. Sources told CNN that all but one of about 20 employees had been let go. The mass firing took place just three days after workers returned to the physical office for the first time since being sent home to work remotely for Covid-19.

Workers arrived at the office in the country’s capital, Accra, on Friday to find they had been locked out of the company computer system and their work email accounts. The termination messages they received in their personal email accounts were addressed generically, without individual names, former employees told CNN.

The brusque tone of the emails took some by surprise, reports claim. “It’s very insulting, from the mail to the lack of…

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