Musk Denies Reports About Him Planning to Fire Twitter Staff to Avoid Payouts

© AFP 2023 / ODD ANDERSEN(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 3, 2020 Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks to media as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla, in Gruenheide near Berlin. -
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 3, 2020 Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks to media as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla, in Gruenheide near Berlin. - - Sputnik International, 1920, 31.10.2022
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - On Friday, US media reported that Twitter had already started laying off employees, with outlets claiming that that Musk intended to fire 75% of Twitter employees. The entrepreneur has denied these reports.
SpaceX and Tesla founder, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, has denied US media reports about laying off Twitter employees early to avoid having to make payouts.
"This is false," he tweeted replying to a comment on social media about the report.
On Thursday, Musk closed the $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter, negotiations for which began in April. On Sunday, US media reported that Musk was going to start laying off Twitter workers before November 1, the date employees were supposed to receive stock grants as part of their pay deals.
The Twitter logo is seen on the awning of the building that houses the Twitter office in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Elon Musk posted a video Wednesday showing him strolling into Twitter headquarters ahead of a Friday deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company. - Sputnik International, 1920, 30.10.2022
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