The crisis emerged as hundreds of employees will be leaving the company after rejecting the demand from Elon Musk to sign up for long hours at high density. As the company closed its several offices temporarily, Twitter users started saying goodbye.
Elon Musk had spelled out an ultimatum by sending emails to the employees that they will have to decide whether they want to stay on for ‘working long hours at high intensity or else they can take a severance package of three months’ pay.
Some employees said that they had chosen to stay “reluctantly,” and only 7% of the poll participants said that they “clicked yes to stay, I’m hardcore.”
What do reports say?
Musk was then meeting some top employees of the company to try and convince them to stay. While it is ambiguous to say how many employees have chosen to stay, the numbers highlight the reluctance of some staffers to remain at a company where Musk has quickened to fire half its employees including the top administration of the company, and is ruthlessly transforming the culture to accentuate long hours at an extreme speed.
The exits include many engineers accountable for correcting bugs and controlling service outages, raising queries about the stability of the platform amid the loss of workers, and encouraging premature debates among the managers over who should be asked to return to the office, current and former employees said.
In the mail, Musk claims that he wants to build Twitter 2.0 and to grow in the highly competitive world he must need hardcore means. This implies long hours at high intensity. He also added that only exceptional performance can constitute a passing grade.
“Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful,” the mail read.
Furthermore, Twitter notifies their employees that Offices will be reopened from Monday onwards, and also access can be granted to the workers on Monday as well.
Earlier this week, he began firing a small group of engineers who took issue with him publicly or in the company’s internal Slack messaging system. Then overnight on Wednesday, Musk sent an email to the remaining team at Twitter, saying that it is a software and servers company at its heart and he asked employees to decide by Thursday evening if they want to remain a part of the company.
Employees Take
Out of the 50, nearly 40 workers claimed that they decided to leave. Moreover, a separate poll declares that among the employees, what percentage of people would leave Twitter based on their perceptions? More than half of the respondents evaluated at least 50% of employees would leave the company.
Background Details
Since taking over Twitter, Elon musk fired the top officials and half of the company’s employees in the first week only. While some of them leave voluntarily in the ensuing days. Even in the past few weeks, Musk has been firing those who are against his decisions or oppose his decisions through public tweets.
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