Definitely, on never get bored with Elon Musk. This week, the billionaire issued a very unexpected ultimatum to Twitter employees who survived the first vague layoffs that led to the reduction of approximately 3,600 jobs, or 50% of the company’s workforce.
Massive and dangerous exodus for Twitter
The deal was clear: agree to stay to work long hours at a very intense pace, or leave with three months’ pay. They had to answer by Thursday, and many have already decided. Thus, the American media reports hundreds of employee layoffs. And it’s clearly not without problems. car this massive churn results in some essential services being effectively abandoned with only one or two staff members on board. Our colleagues would like to receive a reaction from the press service, but many of its employees also left the company. However, it seems that Elon Musk and son The team did everything to keep reluctant employees. So the ruler poured some water. son vin for remote work. While he demanded that all employees go to work in bureau at least 40 hours a week, he softened his position. In an internal memo published this week, he points out “that with regard to work in distance, all your manager is required to do is take responsibility for you to make a big contribution. Similarly, undecided employees who play a key role in the Twitter organization were taken in by Elon Musk’s team to try and persuade them to stay. But this was not enough. In this atmosphere of chaos, another amazing piece of news was announced. The company has indeed decided to close access to the headquarters building for its employees until Monday. Nobody information no additional information on this issue has yet been received.
Twitter RIP?
According to the New York Times, it’s hard to understand the state of mind of employees. Everything is calm on Twitter and internal messages. And for cause, employee posts are scrutinized, and criticism appears to be severely punished. Thus, two dozen employees would be fired due to messages that the government did not like. direction. All this is not very good for the image of the platform. #RIPTwitter is also the first trend in France to be followed very closely by the #Mastodon network. social decentralized, which gains more and more users thanks to failures son rival.
