Twitter Terminates Large Number of Contract Workers Without Notice

A large number of Twitter’s contract workers discovered they were suddenly terminated over the weekend after they lost access to Slack and other work systems, according to internal communications full-time Twitter employees shared with CNBC.

An estimated 4,400 of its 5,500 contract workers were cut, according to the tech news publication Platformer, which first reported the cuts. CNBC has not confirmed the total number.

Some of Twitter’s contract workers were based overseas in India, among other locations. Full-time employees, who asked to remain unnamed because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of Twitter, said they had no internal notice before contractors they were collaborating with were let go.

Read the source article at nbcnews.com