According to Daily Mail, some of the workers being asked to return were laid off by mistake, Bloomberg reports.
After laying off 50 percent of Twitter’s workforce on Friday following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, the company is now reportedly reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return to work.
According to Daily Mail, some of the workers being asked to return were laid off by mistake, Bloomberg reports.
Some were shown the door before new management came to understand that their work might be necessary to build the new features for the short-form online platform that Musk wants.
In a move that was widely expected for weeks, Twitter eliminated close to 3,700 jobs via email on Friday. Many employees learned their positions had been terminated after their access to company systems, like Slack and email, were abruptly cut off.
On Friday evening, Musk tweeted: 'Unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.'
'Everyone exited was offered 3 months severance, which is 50% more than legally required,' he wrote.
Musk has previously alluded to a determination to fix the company's financial health that would all but certainly involve massive layoffs.
The company still has about 3,700 employees. Those remaining are being pushed by Musk to work quickly to develop and implement new features.
There have been reports of employees sleeping at the office - something Musk himself is known to do - in order to meet freshly imposed deadlines.
Over the weekend, Twitter rolled out the new Twitter Blue subscription plan, which offers the verification check mark for any user willing to fork over $8 a month.
The company - largely via Musk's personal account - said it will soon be launching additional new features, including reduced ads, the ability to post longer videos and a feature that allows users to receive priority ranking in replies, mentions and searches.
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the company will delay changes to its blue check program until after Tuesday's midterm elections.
Employees reportedly raised the point that any abrupt change could be used to create chaos on the site in the days before the election.
According to Silicon Valley reporter Casey Newton, employees who remained in the Twitter Slack channel after Friday were asked over the weekend to nominate 'names and rationales' of ex-employees who might still be of potential use to the company.
Twitter has not yet commented on its decision to bring back some of the people who were let go Friday.