Laid-off Twitter Africa team ‘ghosted’ without severance pay or benefits, former employees say
Former employees of Twitter Africa who were laid off as part of a global cost-cutting measure after Elon Musk’s acquisition have not received any severance pay more than seven months since leaving the company, several sources told CNN.
In late May, the former employees, who were based in the Ghanaian capital Accra, accepted Twitter’s (TWTR) offer to pay them three months worth of severance, the cost of repatriating foreign staff and legal expenses incurred during negotiations with the company.
But they have not received the money or any further communication, the sources said.
“They literally ghosted us,” one former Twitter Africa employee told CNN.
“Although Twitter has eventually settled former staff in other locations, Africa staff have still been left in the lurch...
