Elon Musk takes U-turn on sacked Twitter employees

On 4 November, Musk laid off roughly half of Twitter's workforce, and two weeks later, he issued an ultimatum to employees to commit to "extremely hardcore" work in order to realize Musk's vision of "Twitter 2.0", or leave. Hundreds of employees resigned in response. Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP

Twitter owner, and outgoing CEO Elon Musk has hinted that the microblogging platform that fired nearly half its employee force when Elon Musk took over in October 2022, should 'rehire some of the people that were let go'.

In a recent interview with CNBC, the Tesla CEO was heard saying that Twitter had fired so many employees as a 'desperate measure. He said, "desperate times call for desperate measures... Unfortunately, if you do it fast, there are some babies who will be thrown out." Elon Musk took over one of the most influential micro-blogging platform Twitter in October 2022, after his US$44bil (RM198.8bil) deal was completed.