Musk Tells Twitter Staff: Opt in for "Hardcore" Or Take Severance

Reuters2022-11-16

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Elon Musk sent a message to Twitter staff telling them that they had until Thursday to consider whether they wanted to stay on for "working long hours at high intensity" or take a severance package of three months pay.

Musk told Twitter employees that anyone who had not clicked on a link confirming "you want to be part of the new Twitter" by Thursday evening New York time would be considered to have quit.

"Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful," the message said.

A copy of the message, which was reported by The Washington Post, was reviewed by Reuters. A person who had received the message at Twitter confirmed its content.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.

"Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore," the message from Musk said. "This will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade."

Musk said Twitter would be "much more engineering-driven" under his leadership, adding that "those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway."

Twitter laid off half of its workforce earlier this month shortly after Musk took control of the social media company. Musk has criticized Twitter's spending and work culture and said the company needs steep cost cuts and a reboot of its services.

Some Twitter employees who had criticized Musk publicly tweeted earlier that they had been let go.

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  • Jhpuke
    2022-11-16
    Jhpuke
    [What] 
  • DiAngel
    2022-11-16
    DiAngel
    Musk is throwing his weights again by telling Twitter Staff - take it or leave it. I pity Twitter staff as they can't " just do it!" - Nike's slogan.  I have a strong feeling that most of them will opt in for hardcore and not take severance as the market is not good. Those who have the intention ofleaving the company would have done so way before Musk took control of Twitter. Even if the market is good, it is not always that easy to get a job within a month. Needless to say for technology industries when all the technology industries are suffering from the poor market.  I really hope that Musk will be lenient towards TwitterStaff and gives them the option of hybrid ie 2-3 days in office only. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 @TigerStar
  • Ztee
    2022-11-16
    Ztee
    So far never see any good parting words from twitter's staff who are let go compared to Meta employees.. 
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