CNN —TikTok is planning to lay off large swaths of its operations and marketing workforce, current employees briefed on the plans told CNN.
The global layoffs are expected to hit teams that handle user support and communications, as well as content and marketing.
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.
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 CNN.
It is unclear how many TikTok employees could lose their jobs.
Persons:
Adam Presser, Zenia Mucha, TikTok
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CNN, The, Brand, Communications
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United States