Read the email Twitter contractors were sent on Saturday telling them they'd lost their jobs

• Contractors working at Twitter lost access to company systems on Saturday night.
• Shortly after, they got an email notifying them that they were laid off, two sources told Insider.
  

Some Twitter contractors realised they'd been laid off when they lost access to their work email and Slack accounts on Saturday night, two sources told Insider.

The news was first reported by Axios.

The laid-off contractors, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Insider they did not receive the email until after they realized they'd been locked out of their accounts on Saturday night.

The Twitter workers, employed by Surya Systems, received an email notifying them that they lost their jobs about an hour later, the sources said, adding that those affected worked in content moderation and engineering.

The contractors were told that their assignment at Twitter had ended due to a "reprioritization and savings exercise" and that their last day at the company was Monday. The email notified them that their badge and system access was "shut off immediately."

Twitter and Surya Systems did not reply to a request for comment from Insider made outside normal working hours.

"I don't understand how they didn't learn from their previous week's debacle of laying off full-time employees without telling them," one worker told Insider. "It might not seem like a big deal, but I don't think it's appropriate to treat employees like this (again)."

Elon Musk took control of Twitter late last month and had laid off about half its full-time employees by November 4. Like the contractors, staff members also realized they lost their job when they were locked out of their Slack and email accounts.

Read the full email that Twitter contractors received notifying them that they were laid off: