Chaos at Twitter as employees flee after Musk’s mass layoffs
The technological giant is stumbling to keep employees after Musk demanded workers sign a pledge to “work for long hours at high intensity”.
The disaster at Twitter reached new heights after loads of employees have been reported to have rejected Elon Musk’s ultimatum to keep working for the business, threatening its capacity to keep operating.
As the organization temporarily closed its workplaces for the staff on Friday, The users of the social media platform began saying goodbyes and linked their accounts on other platforms.
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.
#RIPTwitter, #TwitterDown, and Myspace have been trending all over the platform after the deadline surpassed Musk’s ultimatum for the remaining workforce to sign up for “long hours at excessive intensity” by Thursday, or leave. This is estimating that loads of workers, already cut from 7,500 to around 3,750 within side the wake of Musk’s takeover of Twitter last month, opted to go.
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.
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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