Elon Musk is said to have laid off at least 4,400 contractual workers at Twitter after firing roughly half of the company’s workforce, or about 3,800 people.
According to allegations from Platformer and Axios, the microblogging site is now firing off contract staff.
“Contractors aren’t being notified at all, they’re just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system,” tweeted Platformer’s Casey Newton.
“They heard nothing from their leaders,” he posted.
Neither Musk nor Twitter responded to the fresh round of layoffs, which began over the weekend.
Many employees discovered they were no longer employed by Twitter after losing access to the company’s internal systems.
“One of my contractors just got deactivated without notice in the middle of making critical changes to our child safety workflows,” one manager said on the company’s internal Slack messaging network.
Following Twitter’s earlier layoffs, many contractors ended up on teams with no full-time staff, leaving no one to sign off on their time sheets, Engadget reported.