NEW DELHI: Twitter is reported to have closed down more offices in India, asking staff to continue working from home.
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According to multiple Indian media reports, the move is seen as a possible relation to CEO Elon Musk’s mission to cut down on the expenses and costs of the struggling social media company. Twitter, which fired more than 90% of its roughly 200-plus staff in India late last year, closed its offices in New Delhi and Mumbai.
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The social media company continues to operate an office in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru that mostly houses engineers.
It is pertinent to mention here that in a drive to stabilise Twitter’s finances by late 2023, billionaire Chief Executive Officer Musk has sacked employees and closed offices throughout the globe.
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Indian media report quoted an internal email to employees in which Twitter said, “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday. We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is, unfortunately, necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward.”
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It is alleged that since the $44 billion buyout, Twitter has failed to pay millions of dollars in rent for its San Francisco headquarters and London offices, been sued by multiple contractors over unpaid services, and auctioned off everything from bird statues to espresso machines to raise money.
