With Elon Musk’s deal to amass Twitter for $44 billion anticipated to undergo by the tip of this week, staff on the social media firm have described the billionaire’s reported plan to chop the workforce by 75% as “reckless.”

A draft of an open letter seen by Time highlights a myriad of issues concerning the anticipated takeover. The letter is signed “Twitter workers,” although it’s not recognized how most of the firm’s 7,500 staff have put their title to it. A notes despatched to potential signatories stated signatures won’t be made public “unless we have critical mass.”

The layoffs, which might see Twitter’s workforce shrink to round 2,000 individuals, will “hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation,” the letter stated. “A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation.”

In a bid to clarify the magnitude of the problems dealing with the corporate if Musk takes management, the letter  stated that “a threat to workers at Twitter is a threat to Twitter’s future … We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats. Without our work, there is no Twitter.” It known as on Twitter administration and Elon Musk to “cease these negligent layoff threats.”

The letter additionally set out a variety of calls for for whoever leads the corporate.

They embrace an insistence that Twitter maintains the present ranges of workers, and that Musk explicitly decide to preserving workers advantages, together with the power to work remotely. This might develop into a flashpoint as Musk is recognized to dislike distant work, whereas Twitter stated on the peak of the pandemic that some staff might do business from home “forever” in the event that they wished.

In a transparent reference to the continuing drama concerning Musk’s on-off acquisition, the letter ended with a requirement that Twitter employees be “treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires.”

We do not know whether or not any of the calls for will likely be heard and even acted upon, however what is obvious is that the story of Musk’s anticipated takeover of the social media platform has some option to run, with extra twists and turns possible over the approaching weeks.

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