Tik Tok was exposed to global restructuring, and some European and American employees were laid off.

Tik Tok was exposed to global restructuring, and some European and American employees were laid off.

Tik Tok was exposed to global restructuring, and some European and American employees were laid off. Foreign media reports did not explain how many Tik Tok employees were fired or how many jobs were in danger. Tik Tok was exposed to global restructuring, and some European and American employees were laid off.

Tik Tok was exposed to global restructuring, and some employees in Europe and America were 1 laid off. According to Wired, some employees in Tik Tok have lost their jobs, while others have been told to prepare for a meeting with the human resources department as part of the global restructuring of video platforms. According to the publication, European employees are warned that their jobs are dangerous, and a human resources meeting is expected in the next few weeks. At the same time, British employees were told that colleagues in various departments were expected to lose their jobs. In the United States, some people were told that they would be fired soon after they went to work on Monday morning.

One of the American employees was David Ortiz, who was one of the first executives employed outside China by ByteDance, Tik Tok's parent company. In a post on LinkedIn, Ortiz said that his "role was cancelled in a bigger reorganization". When asked by Wired magazine, Tik Tok's spokesman did not deny that staff were being laid off. However, they did not confirm that the company was undergoing global restructuring, nor did they provide the publication with a detailed statement on why Tik Tok laid off employees.

A staff member who talked to the publication said that the company only cut employees and teams that managers thought were not contributing enough. They claim that only 65,438+000 employees have been laid off, which is only a fraction of about 65,438+000 employees in the United States and Europe. In other words, Tik Tok is just one of the companies that have laid off employees in the fields of big technology, games, AV/EV and social media.

Due to the economic recession, some companies in this industry have to lay off employees, including Netflix, Unity and Twitter. According to reports, Tesla fired 200 self-driving employees and closed an office in California. Bloomberg said Rivian plans to lay off 5% of its staff. According to the information, finally, Meta told employees to find out the underperforming people and transfer them out of the company if they can't get back on track.

Tik Tok was exposed to global restructuring, and some employees in Europe and America were laid off. According to foreign media reports, according to five people familiar with the matter, Tik Tok has begun to reorganize its global business, including layoffs and the cancellation of some vacant positions.

Recently, out of concern about the economic recession in the United States, almost all American technology companies, including Meta, Twitter and Apple, have taken the initiative to slow down their expansion and even started to lay off employees. Tik Tok has also joined the ranks.

Foreign media reports did not explain how many Tik Tok employees were fired or how many jobs were in danger. However, a Tik Tok employee claimed that the number of layoffs would be less than 100.

Another employee of Tik Tok said that the restructuring announced within the company affected Tik Tok's business in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom.

At the beginning of July this year, foreign media reported that due to internal problems and the inability to attract consumers, Tik Tok abandoned the expansion of live broadcast delivery projects in Europe and the United States.

It is reported that Tik Tok originally planned to launch live delivery in European markets such as Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and hopes to launch live delivery in the US market later this year.

At the time of layoffs, Tik Tok's privacy policy update has also caused controversy in Europe. Last week, foreign media reported that the company had agreed to suspend the update scheduled for July 14 due to the controversy caused by the privacy policy update in Europe.

At the end of June this year, a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that he had asked Apple and Google to remove Tik Tok from their respective app stores for data security reasons.

In early July, Mark Warner, chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, and Mark Lu Biao, leader of the Committee and political party, jointly requested the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Tik Tok and its parent company ByteDance on data access.

Tik Tok was exposed to global restructuring, and some European and American employees were laid off. According to informed sources, Tik Tok, a short video platform, has started to restructure its global business, and some jobs have been abolished in the process. The company has fired some American employees and told some employees working in Europe that they may be laid off.

In recent years, the number of users and employees in Tik Tok is expanding rapidly. In September last year, the monthly users of the platform exceeded 654.38+0 billion, and now it has thousands of employees around the world. Tik Tok's rapid growth and popularity among young users have also affected Facebook's social application Ins and Google's video platform YouTube, which launched short video products of competitors.

However, according to company sources, on Monday morning, some European employees were told that their jobs were at risk and would receive a notice to meet with the company's personnel department in the next few weeks. Some British employees have been told that many departments in Tik Tok will start to lay off employees. Tik Tok employees working in the United States will be a few hours late, but the company has started to inform some of them that their positions will be cancelled on Monday.

An employee said that the business restructuring announced by Tik Tok on Monday included layoffs and the cancellation of some vacant positions, involving Tik Tok's businesses in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Plans to expand some teams within the company have been shelved.

Tik Tok executive David Ortiz is a senior employee of Snap. On Monday, he announced on LinkedIn, a recruitment platform, that he would leave the company because his position was abolished, which is also part of the company's "larger restructuring".

An informed company executive did not deny that Tik Tok was undergoing structural adjustment or that the company was laying off employees. In response to a request for comment, a Tik Tok spokesman did not deny that layoffs were being made.

In recent weeks, large technology companies and start-ups have frozen recruitment plans or laid off employees, and Tik Tok has joined the ranks. Recently, the company abandoned its plan to expand its store in Tik Tok, which is a platform for live broadcast in American and European markets. Live broadcast was once regarded by Tik Tok as a major new source of income. A former Tik Tok employee who left the company earlier this year said, "I don't think the layoffs in Tik Tok are any different from those in large technology companies."

Another Tik Tok employee said that the layoffs will focus on those individuals and teams who have not contributed enough to the company, and the number of layoffs will be less than 100. According to Tik Tok's previous statements and internal sources, the company has at least 65,438+00,000 employees in the United States and Europe.

Tik Tok was founded on 20 18, and then it grew at an amazing speed. Brendan Gahan, partner and chief social officer of Mekanism, a marketing agency in new york, said: "Their business is expanding at a speed we have never seen before." He guessed that the reorganization would not significantly weaken Tik Tok's influence or popularity. ""I don't think a few layoffs will bring more trouble to the company, nor will they bring anything that will slow down their development momentum. "

Ortiz, an executive who announced his departure on LinkedIn, declined to be interviewed. However, he mentioned the brief twists and turns in Tik Tok's release. Ortiz said, "Working in Tik Tok is an extraordinary journey."