1,200 Full-Time Twitter Employees Reportedly Left After Musk’s Ultimatum – SlashGear

Per internal documents cited in the report, a total of 1,200 employees have chosen to say goodbye, which is nearly a third of Twitter’s entire workforce, as per rough estimates. According to Insider, “less than half of the company’s remaining roughly 4,000 employees chose on Thursday to stay at the company.” Per Insider, the company is currently left with only about 2,000 employees. Fortune also reports that anywhere between 1,000 and 1,200 employees had resigned following Musk’s Twitter 2.0 email.

Many senior software engineers at Twitter have left, but among people still working at Twitter are immigrants, whose visas depend on them having jobs.

This is not a thing to celebrate — it just shows that immigrants have fewer worker rights and fewer options.

— Pranay Manocha (@PranMan) November 18, 2022

Plus, it appears that not everyone who is left at Twitter is doing so because they believe in Musk’s vision of hardcore engineering. Multiple journalists and startup figures have opined that a lot immigrant workers tied to work visa rules have no option but to stick with their current employer, especially those in the US. As per data seen by Vice on the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s website, Twitter currently has approximately 300 employees working in its U. S. offices with an H-1B visa permit.

According to information shared by an anonymous employee with The Verge, “it will be extremely hard for Twitter to recover from here, no matter how hardcore the people who remain try to be.” In the meantime, Musk is reportedly at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, interacting with the remaining employees and deciding on a future course of action. This is happening after Twitter suspended employee badge access and shut down its office until next week.