[kemayo]

> Never understood why people are so concerned about him cutting jobs? He bought the company and took it private. It’s his right to restructure it and try to make it generate profit as he’d wish.

Absent a few questions about whether the layoffs have been done in a way that violates employment laws (which I've seen enough debate about that I imagine we'll have to see how lawsuits turn out), I don't think anyone is saying he doesn't have the right to do this. Rather, criticism focuses on whether it was (a) a good idea, and (b) well-executed.

There's a few major strands of criticism of the layoffs that appeal to me:

1. It was less than a week. You can't possibly have reviewed who you were firing well enough to be confident that you were firing the right people.

2. The departments that were laid off are concerning. Apparently the trust and safety teams were hardest hit, and making the already-bad moderation worse on Twitter doesn't sound great.

[tayo42]

To add to that first point there's rumors they're asking people to come back. Maybe confirmed by now?