--- title: Twitter Layoffs: Read Letter CEO Jack Dorsey Sent Employees description: Twitter announced Tuesday that it's laying off more than 300 employees, representing about 8% of the company's workforce. canonical: https://time.com/4071255/twitter-layoffs-jack-dorsey/ author: Alex Fitzpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-13T13:01:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:44:22.884Z article:section: Business og:title: Read the Letter Twitter's CEO Sent to Laid-Off Employees og:description: "Twitter will go to great lengths to take care of each individual" og:url: https://time.com/4071255/twitter-layoffs-jack-dorsey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57dae85523d2f86c/698868090a4a22183a9c688f/gettyimages-456915652-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Letter Twitter's CEO Sent to Laid-Off Employees twitter:description: "Twitter will go to great lengths to take care of each individual" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57dae85523d2f86c/698868090a4a22183a9c688f/gettyimages-456915652-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Letter Twitter's CEO Sent to Laid-Off Employees  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Oct 13, 2015 1:01 PM CUT  Twitter Co-Founder and Chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey speaks onstage during "From 7 Dwarves to 140 Characters" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Twitter Co-Founder and Chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey speaks onstage during "From 7 Dwarves to 140 Characters" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California.Kimberly White—Getty Images for Vanity Fair  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Oct 13, 2015 1:01 PM CUT Twitter announced Tuesday that it’s laying off more than 300 employees, representing about 8% of the company’s workforce. The move, expected after a Re/code [report](http://recode.net/2015/10/09/twitter-is-planning-company-wide-layoffs-for-next-week/ "undefined") last week, comes shortly after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO. Dorsey was previously serving as interim CEO after Twitter’s former chief executive, Dick Costolo, left in July. In a letter to Twitter employees, Dorsey framed the layoffs as a means to refocus the company’s efforts. “The roadmap is also a plan to change how we work, and what we need to do that work,” he wrote. Here’s Dorsey’s [letter](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000156459015008360/twtr-ex991%5F6.htm "undefined") in full: --- > “” --- ### See What Your Twitter Profile Looked Like Over the Last 10 Years  2006 Wayback Machine  2007 Wayback Machine  2008 Wayback Machine  2009 Wayback Machine  2010 Wayback Machine  2011 Wayback Machine  2012 Wayback Machine  2013 The Next Web  2014 TIME ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4071255/twitter-layoffs-jack-dorsey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4071255/twitter-layoffs-jack-dorsey/"},"headline":"Read the Letter Twitter's CEO Sent to Laid-Off Employees","datePublished":"2015-10-13T13:01:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:44:22.884Z","description":"\"Twitter will go to great lengths to take care of each individual\"","url":"https://time.com/4071255/twitter-layoffs-jack-dorsey/","keywords":["Companies","Tech","twitter","Jack Dorsey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57dae85523d2f86c/698868090a4a22183a9c688f/gettyimages-456915652-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Fitzpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57dae85523d2f86c/698868090a4a22183a9c688f/gettyimages-456915652-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2","caption":"Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2","creditText":"Kimberly White—Getty Images for Vanity Fair","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4071255/twitter-layoffs-jack-dorsey/","name":"Read the Letter Twitter's CEO Sent to Laid-Off Employees"}}]}] ```