00:00Tiktok's short video platform
00:04confirmed a report on the shutdown of workers in Malaysia
00:08as part of a reduction in global labor.
00:12According to the company's response to FMT,
00:15the company said that it could not give an exact figure
00:18on the affected workers
00:20due to the different local employment processes around the world.
00:25Its spokesman said the decision was in line
00:28with the continued efforts of the affected platforms
00:31to increase the efforts to reduce its burden.
00:35Yesterday, the media reported that Tiktok,
00:38owned by the Chinese company ByteDance,
00:41has suspended hundreds of workers in its unit in Malaysia.
00:45Searching for sources, the report showed
00:48that more than 500 individuals received shutdown emails,
00:52most of them working in the role of platform delivery.
00:58In June, Bloomberg reported that ByteDance
01:01suspended 450 workers in its Indonesian unit
01:05following the acquisition of a local trading company
01:08that was combined into the Tiktok operation.
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