The crisis at social media company Twitter has reached a new height. The company’s offices will remain closed for an unknown reason. Many employees would like to leave because Musk wants them to sign a promise that they have to work hard. At the same time, the platform suffers from stability problems, but there would still be insufficient staff to deal with bugs and other problems. Abusive messages about Elon Musk have been projected on the walls of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco.
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Elon Musk has changed his tone about working from home at Twitter after too many employees indicated that they wanted to leave. This is reported by the Bloomberg news agency, which is based on insiders. In the three weeks that Musk has been in charge of Twitter, he has already fired half of the staff and has also not liked much of the other employees.
Musk had previously indicated that remote working would no longer be allowed. According to him, staff should be in the office for at least 40 hours a week. An ultimatum followed this week. The staff of the social media company had to sign a pledge to work hard. If they refused, they would lose their jobs. The email had only one possible answer: yes.
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Once a month
That button was pressed by too few Twitter employees, the insiders now tell Bloomberg. Musk and his lieutenants would therefore have taken a softer tone. Working from home is allowed, it sounds now. Then your manager must “take responsibility and ensure that you make an outstanding contribution to the company,” Musk writes in a new email. However, Twitter employees must be physically present at a meeting with their colleagues at least once a month.
Incidentally, Musk still seems to have little faith in Twitter’s staff. In a subsequent e-mail message, the billionaire says that managers who “falsely claim that one of their subordinates is doing an excellent job or that a certain position is essential” will be fired.
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Offices closed
The BBC, meanwhile, reports that Twitter’s offices will remain closed for the rest of the week and will not reopen until Monday, November 21. The British broadcaster relies on a message sent by the company to employees. Twitter did not give a reason for the closure and the company did not want to respond to questions from the BBC.
Malfunctions
Twitter also suffers from stability problems. Reuters news agency writes that among the laid off and resigned employees are many experts responsible for tackling Twitter bugs and service problems. Thursday evening Twitter would suddenly have slowed down. “When things break, there is no one left in many departments to fix them,” said an anonymous source who, according to Reuters, is well aware of the company’s ins and outs.
Elon Musk himself remains himself and responded in his well-known style with this message on Twitter:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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