• After two months of waiting, laid off Twitter employees got severance agreements from Elon Musk.
• The process for accessing the agreements was so odd, many workers feared a phishing attempt.
• Some affected workers say they will not sign because of how much they are being asked to give up.

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Hundreds of Twitter employees who were part of Elon Musk's first round of layoffs just got severance paperwork after waiting for two months. Now they must decide whether to sign or join lawsuits against the company and its billionaire owner.

In the early hours of Saturday, the former Twitter employees laid off on Nov. 4 received a message from "[email protected]," an email not associated with any internal department at the company, several people familiar with the situation told Insider.

The email was designated as "spam" for most people who received it. After digging it out of spam folders, the message directed people to a website operated by CPT Group for access to the full separation agreement.

"As you know, we've had to reduce our global workforce to ensure the company's success moving...

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