Twitter is now asking some of its employees who have been laid off to come back to the now Elon Musk-owned social network, a recent report says.

The report cited sources familiar with the matter, saying that Twitter now wants some of its workers back.

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But why is Musk-led social media asking some of them to return?

Twitter Now Wants Some Fired Employees to Come Back

As per the latest news story by Bloomberg, Twitter is asking its former employees, who lost their jobs after Musk acquired the social media giant, to return.

The news outlet notes that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who now sits as the Chief Twit, has swiftly purged around half of the workforce of Twitter. The massive layoff comes shortly after Musk bought the microblogging platform for a staggering $44 billion.

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In this illustration photo taken on July 18, 2022 Elon Musk's reply Tweet to Parag Agrawal, the CEO of Twitter, showing a poop emoji is displayed on the screen of a smartphone with Musk Twitter page in the background in Los Angeles.

And this time, after Twitter bid farewell to roughly half of its total workforce, the social media giant is reportedly reaching out to its displaced employees to come back.

Bloomberg says that two sources close to the situation claim that the top brass of the platform has decided to ask its fired employees to return after their realization.

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Why is Twitter Asking Laid-Off Workers to Return After Getting Fired?

According to a recent report by Engadget, the two sources say that the execs of the social media giant realized that some of the fired employees turned out to be essential in the plans of the new Chief Twit.

Given that, it looks like the firing of some employees was merely an accident after all.

Engadget notes in its report that Casey Newton of the Platformer broke the news regarding the plan of the social network to ask their employees to return. He even shared some messages from the internal Twitter Slack channels.

Newton reports that the Twitter Slack contains a message that says "sorry to @-everbody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back."

However, it is worth noting that Musk-owned social media has yet to confirm that it is actually reaching out to its fired employees.

A news story by Tech Crunch reports that upon the Twitter acquisition of Musk, the tech giant has laid off thousands of employees. It reportedly includes folks from the Human Rights Team and the Accessibility Experience.

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Written by Teejay Boris