Why are people still working there? Is it just those who are stuck on a visa or have severe financial problems? Are these people truly enthusiastic about the mission?
Don't say "poor IT workers" please .... its emberrasing.
If that happened, it would imply that running the website requires constant manual human intervention.
The problems arise as time and debt accrues and when you try and make changes.
And every change Twitter has made has been a mess so far. Twitter Blue being implemented and then unimplemented and then postponed. The whole ElonJet block, unblock, block saga.
Drawing any judgments about Twitter right now is way too early in either direction.
Most tech companies took on too many workers during the pandemic and so most have a lot of fat to cut. The big issue with Twitter’s cuts were their arbitrary nature, as opposed to the size of the cut necessarily.
We will see the impact, if any, over the next couple of years as Twitter has to start introducing new changes.
> The big issue with Twitter’s cuts were their arbitrary nature, as opposed to the size of the cut necessarily
There is collateral damage to basically any intervention. Its most probable that detailed analysis of every employee would not be financially and temporarly justified. And you can always bring most people back if you really want tha.
The rest are probably a mix of visa lock-in, 2 months from retirement, not quite found somewhere to land, and "self-sacrifice" going down with the ship to try and limit the blast radius
I mean if I had the choice between $10k per month or $0 for the next few months during a recession, I'd bite my tongue and stay with the bad guy for as long as possible.