Some TikTok employees have already lost their jobs, while others are being told to prepare for a meeting with HR as part of the video platform’s global restructuring efforts, Wired reports. According to the report, European employees have been warned that their jobs are at risk and to expect an HR meeting in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, employees in the United Kingdom have been told to expect colleagues across all departments to lose their jobs. In the United States, employees have been told that some of their jobs will be eliminated.
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One of those U.S. employees was David Ortiz, who was among the first executives hired by TikTok parent company ByteDance outside of China. In a LinkedIn post, Ortiz said that his “ role is being eliminated in a much larger reorganization effort .” A TikTok spokesperson who spoke to Wired did not deny that layoffs were taking place .
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Another employee said the company is laying off employees and teams that managers believe aren’t contributing enough. He claimed that only 100 employees are being laid off, which is only a small percentage of the roughly 10,000 employees across the U.S. and Europe. That said, TikTok is just one of many companies in the big tech, gaming, AV/EV, and social media that are reducing their workforce.
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Tech companies that have decided to reduce their workforces include Netflix , Unity, and Twitter . Tesla reportedly laid off 200 Autopilot employees and closed an office in California. Bloomberg said Rivian plans to lay off 5 percent of its workforce. Finally, Meta told employees to identify underperformers and encourage them to leave the company if they can’t meet the company’s demands.
Information source: engadget.com
