Netflix layoffs: Fired employees vent anger on Twitter

Netflix has laid off some of its employees, following the news that the streaming service has lost customers for the first time in a decade. Many of those fired were writers and editors at Tudum, Netflix’s official companion site, which launched in December. According to NPR, the majority of them were women of color who had only been employed a few months previously.

One group of ten to twelve writers and editors who worked for Tudum’s culture and trends department was among the Netflix employees laid go. “Most, if not all, of the team were Black, Latinx, or Asian women,” according to NPR, who added that they were all experienced journalists recruited from sites like Vulture, Teen Vogue, and The New York Times.

“They went very out of their way to hire high level journalists of colour who have quite a bit of name recognition and a lot of experience and talent. In some ways, they were just buying clout to lend credibility to their gambit,” one member of the team told NPR, just hours after being laid off. Others used Twitter to vent their frustrations and seek fresh chances.

At least ten employees have taken to Twitter to express their disappointment at being laid off just months after being hired with the promise of better stability.

The layoffs at Netflix sparked outrage on social media. Netflix laid off staff it had recruited from other companies with only two weeks’ severance pay, according to several Twitter users. Few other twitter’s responded the same way as well.

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According to the Daily Beast, Netflix hired individuals with the promise of high money and no story or traffic targets in order to construct Tudum. If something sounds too good to be true, many people have found out the hard way.

Netflix, Inc. is a subscription streaming service and production firm based in the United States. Netflix, which was founded on August 29, 1997, has a film and television series collection as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals.

Netflix had over 221.6 million members globally as of March 31, 2022, with 74.6 million in the US and Canada, 74.0 million in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 39.9 million in Latin America, and 32.7 million in Asia-Pacific.

Except for Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, Kosovo, Russia, and Crimea, it is available everywhere. Netflix is a member of the Motion Picture Association and has played a significant role in independent film distribution (MPA).