Hundreds of employees are leaving Twitter after CEO Elon Musk demanded that in order to stay at the company they would need to commit to “extremely hardcore” working conditions, The Daily Wire is reporting.
Employees left in drove on Thursdays, many happy to take the 3-months severance and walk away.
“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk wrote in an email to employees this week. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
“Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven,” he continued. “Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so I think this makes sense.”
From The Daily Wire:
The news comes after Musk let go of approximately half of the company’s 7,500 full-time employees earlier this month in an attempt to cut out bloat because the company is not profitable.
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Musk and his team held meetings with some of the “critical” people at the company that they were trying to persuade into staying. There were questions about whether Twitter would be able to continue operating with so many key personnel leaving the company.
Twitter reportedly closed all office buildings temporarily until November 21st and suspended all badge access, the Platformer reported.
Musk remains in good spirits, even posting jokes about his turbulent start on Twitter.
How do you make a small fortune in social media?
Start out with a large one.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
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