The social media giants have started locking employees out of systems before collective redundancy process has started as part of this year's largest tech layoffs.
Twitter and Meta have been facing scrutiny for "actively ignoring Irish labour laws" following two weeks of intense layoffs, resulting in thousands of employees losing their jobs at the social media companies unexpectedly.
The multi-million dollar networks cut down on tens of thousands of jobs around the world in the midst of a major IT crisis. Meta has reported to have fired a staggering estimate of 11,000 people-13% of its workforce-in what is quickly becoming the biggest tech layoff of the year. The job cuts come just a week after Twitter's new owner Elon Musk fired half of the social media giant's labour pool following is $44 million takeover.
Ireland is home to a large number of the possibly affected employees: around 3,000 people are directly employed by Meta in Ireland, with around 500 Irish Twitter employees. It is not yet clear how many Irish employees have been or will ultimately be effected by these cuts.
The firms have been rigorously criticised after employees were left unable to do their jobs after being suddenly locked out of systems and emails, even though theirs jobs had yet to be terminated under the collective redundancy process. Meta relayed to its workers that it was removing Meta systems access to people that are to be fired "given the amount of access to sensitive information."
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