Twitter has closed offices in Delhi and Mumbai and asked employees to work from home amid layoffs and severe cost-cutting.
According to PTI, the microblogging platform’s Bengaluru office, which is primarily staffed by engineers, is still operational.
According to sources familiar with the situation, the Delhi and Mumbai offices were closed a few weeks ago, and the remaining staff is now working from home.
The number of employees affected by the move, however, could not be determined immediately. A mail sent to Twitter on the issue did not elicit a response.
The closure of the two offices in key Indian locations comes as the platform embarks on a massive cost-cutting drive around the world, following billionaire Elon Musk’s $ 44 billion takeover of Twitter last year.
The company reduced its global workforce from over 7,000 to 2,300 active employees, beginning with the firing of CEO Parag Agrawal, as well as the CFO and many other high-ranking leaders, last year.
Twitter fired the majority of its over 200 employees in India as part of the subsequent layoffs. Only a few were spared as layoffs whittled down engineering, sales and marketing, and communications teams.
In an internal email to employees in early November, the US-based social media platform stated, “to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce…”