Thousands To be Disengaged as TikTok Plans Mass Lay-off of Staffs

Thousands of TikTok staffs are on the brink to lose their jobs as the tech company is planning to lay off large swaths of its operations and marketing workforce.

The global layoffs are expected to hit teams that handle user support and communications, as well as content and marketing, current employees briefed on the plans told CNN.

TikTok’s current global user operations team will be dismantled as part of the move, and remaining employees will be distributed among the company’s trust and safety, marketing, content and product teams.

Adam Presser, the company’s head of operations, and Chief Brand and Communications Officer Zenia Mucha sent a message to affected teams on Tuesday evening.

The layoffs had been in the works for some time, perhaps almost a year, but recent turnover in TikTok’s marketing, trust and safety and operations teams prompted delays, one of the employees told the publication.

The layoffs are not related to the legal and political turmoil facing the company in the United States that could end in a potential nationwide ban of the TikTok app, the person added.

It is unclear how many TikTok employees could lose their jobs. In an earlier report by The Information, a “large percentage” of the roughly 1,000 employees who work on the affected teams could be laid off.