Elon Musk has confirmed that he has fired over 80 per cent of the complete workforce of Twitter to this point. The billionaire took over Twitter in October final 12 months and carried out a number of rounds of layoffs after the $44 billion-takeover. Musk, in an interview with BBC, on Twitter Areas introduced that just one,500 of the round 8000 Twitter workers are nonetheless employed on the firm. 

Musk claims that there have been “just below 8,000” workers members when he purchased the corporate. Now, Twitter is left with round 1,500 workers.

Additional, Elon Musk was requested if it is arduous to fireside that many individuals, Musk responded by saying, “not enjoyable in any respect” and that it may be “painful”. Musk additionally claimed that he doesn’t fireplace everybody in individual. He mentioned, “It isn’t potential to speak with that many individuals head to head.”