{"id":25068,"date":"2022-07-08T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=25068"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:34:31","slug":"twitter-lays-off-30-of-its-talent-acquisition-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/twitter-lays-off-30-of-its-talent-acquisition-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Lays Off 30% Of Its Talent Acquisition Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"0\">Twitter has laid off 30% of its talent acquisition team, including recruiters and others tasked with hiring new employees, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"1\">The layoffs follow an earlier announcement of a partial hiring freeze, as costs look set to be cut amid a likely takeover by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"2\">A Twitter spokesman said affected employees will receive severance packages and the remaining recruitment staff will be reprioritized due to declining hiring.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"3\">Twitter has paused most hiring and backfills, apart from the most critical roles.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"4\">In a post on LinkedIn, Ingrid Johnson, a senior technical recruiter at Twitter, confirmed the redundancies and spoke of a &#8220;really tough day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\" data-ar-index=\"5\">&#8220;There are people losing their jobs that have been there over a decade. If Twitter has chosen to spend potential billions suing Elon and maintaining a falsely inflated stock price at the expense of the people who gave their lives building the company- that is an even more tragic story,&#8221; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_7\" data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/twitter-layoffs-233150630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has laid off 30% of its talent acquisition team, including recruiters and others tasked with hiring new employees, according to The Wall Street Journal. The layoffs follow an earlier announcement of a partial hiring freeze, as costs look set to be cut amid a likely takeover by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk. A Twitter spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,381,69],"tags":[78,275,44],"class_list":["post-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","category-operations","category-people","tag-elon-musk","tag-top-story","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25198,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions\/25198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}