Twitter CEO Elon Musk has notified employees at the company about a hardcore work environment ahead as he plans to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 which according to him will be very demanding.
He informed them via an email, with the subject heading “A fork in the road”, where he gave them the option to either resign, which they get to receive three months severance pay, or stay committed to the task ahead.
Each employee is given until 5 pm Eastern Time on Thursday, to either click yes on the Google form link to affirm their stay, or receive their three months’ severance pay.
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The mail reads,
“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore.
“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.
“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.
“If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below:[Google form link] Anyone who has not done so by 5 pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance. Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful.”
After the completion of his Twitter $44 billion acquisition deal, Musk has been carrying out a serious revamp at the company, as he seeks to make the platform more profitable and accommodating to diverse opinions.
Immediately after he took over as CEO, he dismissed the company’s top executives and also ordered the mass layoffs of staff which saw around 50 percent of the company’s employees lose their jobs. In about two weeks under Musk’s leadership, Twitter has fired over 3,700 people.
He has also enacted controversial changes, such as introducing a new paid verification subscription feature as well as overhauling the way the platform does content moderation.
Recall that Musk also terminated Twitter’s remote work policy, where he said workers would be expected to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week. In his words, “remote work is no longer allowed” and the road ahead is “arduous and will require intense work to succeed.”
Reports reveal that the Tesla billionaire has brought a different atmosphere to the company as staff who work at the company are very careful of what they say about him and the company.
Musk has already gone ahead to fire nearly two dozen employees who pushed back privately or publicly against him, also ordering his team to comb through employees’ internal chats and tweets.
It has been a wild ride for Twitter under Elon Musk as some have disclosed that every day presents a new drama at the company.