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By Sheila Dang, Katie Paul and Paresh Dave

(Reuters) -Twitter will tell employees by email on Friday about whether they have been laid off, temporarily closing its offices and preventing staff access, following a week of uncertainty about the co*pany’s future under new owner Elon Musk.

The social media co*pany said in an email to staff that it will alert employees by 9 a.m. Pacific time on Friday (12 p.m. EDT/1600 GMT) about staff cuts.

“In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday,” said the email sent on Thursday, seen by Reuters.

Twitter said its offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended in order “to help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data.”

The social media platform said Twitter employees who are not affected by the layoffs will be notified via their work email addresses.

Staff who have been laid off will be notified with next steps to their personal email addresses, the memo said.

Some employees tweeted their access to the co*pany’s IT system has been already blocked and feared whether that suggested their layoffs.

“Looks like I’m unemployed y’all. Just got remotely logged out of my work laptop and removed from Slack,” tweeted a user with the @SBkcrn account whose profile is described as former senior co*munity manager at Twitter.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for co*ment.

The notification of layoffs caps off a week of purges by Musk as he demanded deep cost cuts and imposed an aggressive new work ethic across the social media co*pany.

He has directed Twitter’s teams to find up to $1 billion in annual infrastructure cost savings, according to two sources familiar with the matter and an internal Slack message reviewed by Reuters.

He had already cleared out the co*pany’s senior ranks, firing its chief executive and top finance and legal executives. Others, including those sitting atop the co*pany’s advertising, marketing and human resources divisions, departed throughout the past week.

Musk’s first week as Twitter’s owner has been marked by chaos and uncertainty. Two co*pany-wide meetings were scheduled, only to be canceled mere hours later. Employees told Reuters they were left to piece together information through media reports, private messaging groups and anonymous forums.

The layoffs, which were long expected, have chilled Twitter’s famously open corporate culture that has been revered by its employees.

“If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home,” Twitter said in the email on Thursday.

Shortly after the email landed in Twitter employee inboxes, hundreds of people flooded the co*pany’s Slack channels to say goodbye, two employees told Reuters. Someone invited Musk to join the channel, the sources said.

(Reporting by Sheila Dang, Katie Paul, Paresh Dave and Fanny Potkin; Editing by Sandra Maler, Kenneth Li, Richard Pullin and Lincoln Feast.)