TikTok is laying off 250 employees in its Nashville office
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In January, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, spun out an American venture to operate in the United States.
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Emmett Lindner
NEW YORK - TikTok’s American joint venture said on Aug 5 that it was shuttering its Nashville, Tennessee, office, a space that housed, in part, members of its content moderation team.
The company laid off 250 employees, according to labour documents filed with the state of Tennessee. The workers there are not represented by a collective bargaining agreement, documents said. The office will close on Oct 5.