Employees at Twitter Inc.’s Singapore headquarters were forced to clear their desks and evacuate the premises, according to people familiar with the issue, as Elon Musk continues to cut costs around the world.
Twitter employees were notified by email on Wednesday that they had until 5 p.m. to leave the CapitaGreen building and resume their jobs remotely beginning Thursday, according to one of the sources who asked not to be identified because they were revealing private information. Singapore-based employees have been transferred as remote workers in Twitter’s internal system until further notice, according to the source.
Twitter’s Asia-Pacific headquarters are in Singapore, a region that was hard impacted by deep and abrupt employee losses when new owner Musk took over the San Francisco-based corporation. Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, the region’s head of site integrity and a relatively new hire, was also let go this month by the corporation.
Twitter representatives did not immediately reply to calls for comment. Twitter remains a tenant at CapitaGreen, according to a spokeswoman for CapitaLand, the owner of its Singapore headquarters.
Musk’s cost-cutting measures have included failing to pay rent on its worldwide headquarters, for which the company was sued last month by the landlord of its San Francisco offices. Platformer Casey Newton originally tweeted about the Singapore office clearout, explaining that the reason was a failure to pay rent on the property.
Twitter and CapitaLand, the company that owns its Singapore offices, did not immediately respond to calls for comment.
Musk’s cost-cutting measures have included failing to pay rent on its worldwide headquarters, for which the company was sued last month by the landlord of its San Francisco offices. Platformer Casey Newton originally tweeted about the Singapore office clearout, explaining that the reason was a failure to pay rent on the property.