The leading destination for short-form mobile video, TikTok has begun its process of laying off staff across the company in the U.S. and Europe. This will be part of a move to reorganize its business.
The European employees of TikTok were told that their jobs were at risk and that they would hold a meeting with the HR department in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, the platform employees in the United Kingdom were told to expect to see colleagues lose their jobs and that every department will be affected by the mass layoff.
David Ortiz, TikTok Monetization Product Leader, posted on Linkedin, saying “I found out today that my role is being eliminated in a much larger reorganization effort. Working at TikTok has been quite a ride! Two and a half years ago.”
“I was the very first hire outside of China, in my product and engineering org, tasked to build the entire international product management team from scratch and spearhead the development of engineering offices in San Francisco and Singapore”, David Ortiz added.
He further added, “Since then, I’ve scaled and managed the PM, PMM, and Eng orgs and brought several products to market that have revolutionized our internal ad sales ecosystem and created new dependencies across Bytedance/ Tiktok Ads Monetization Product offerings.”
The exact number of job cuts is not known. There are around 10,000 employees across the United States and Europe.
However, this App is banned in India but it has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
The Company, owned by ByteDance, crossed one billion active users in September and employs thousands across the globe.
