Hundreds of Twitter employees have reportedly decided to leave the company after new owner Elon Musk issued an ultimatum Thursday urging employees to prepare to work “long hours at high intensity” or leave.
After realizing that the number of people who decided to leave the company might be higher than expected, Musk reversed a decision he had made a week earlier in the year. Back to the officesafter saying on Thursday that it would allow employees to work remotely if their managers saw that they were making an “excellent contribution”, according to the daily. Washington Post🇧🇷
The same newspaper also reported that team leaders met quickly to discuss who should be invited back into the company.
The layoffs show a reluctance of some of Twitter’s roughly 3,000 employees to stay at a company where Musk has laid off half of the workforce, Including senior managementand try to change practices.
according to Washington PostEmployees estimate that between 2,000 and 2,500 people remained with the company, but the investigation of who left the company is not yet certain because most of the people who were part of the HR team also left the company.
Elon Musk took to Twitter Thursday night to reveal that he’s not worried about employees leaving, as “the best people stay.” According to sources reported by Reuters, the millionaire met with some key employees on Thursday in an attempt to convince them to stay with the company.
“We’ve just reached another historic record in Twitter usage…” he added, without elaborating.
And…we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
More than 110 Twitter employees on at least four continents announced their decision to leave the company in posts on the social network, though Reuters has not independently verified the posts. About 15 employees, many of them in advertising, have expressed their intention to stay with the company.
On Twitter’s internal communications platform, more than 500 employees wrote farewell messages Thursday, according to a source close to them.
In a private chat on the platform Signal Of about 50 Twitter employees, nearly 40 said they had decided to leave, according to a former employee quoted by Reuters. In turn, in a private group on the platform slackAround 360 employees From Twitter he joined a new group called “Voluntary Resignation,” according to another source.
platform at risk
Several engineers responsible for debugging Bugs And avoiding outages would be on the way out, raising questions about the stability of the platform.
On Thursday evening, the version of Twitter used by employees began to slow down, according to a source quoted by Reuters, who predicted that the public version of Twitter was at risk of being banned overnight.
“If it is banned, there will be no one left to fix things in many areas,” said the source, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal.
“I am aware of six critical systems that no longer have engineers,” said a former employee. Washington Post🇧🇷 Furthermore, most of the people responsible for Detecting false information🇧🇷 Spam emailsFake accounts and impersonations also appeared.
“Any error in code and operations is now fatal,” the newspaper quoted a former engineer who left the company this week. The rest, he added, “will be overwhelmed, and because of that, they are more likely to make mistakes.”
Reports of the releases on Twitter rose sharply to about 350 on Thursday evening, according to Site downdetectorwhich tracks outages in sites and applications.
“We will need to be very strong.”
Musk said on Wednesday E-mail which he sent to the Twitter staff.
a E-mail He asked the employees to click the “Yes” option if they wanted to stay with the company. The landlord also said he assumed those who did not respond by 5 p.m. (local time) on Thursday wanted to leave and would receive compensation equal to three months’ wages, according to Washington Post🇧🇷
Tess Rinearson, who was tasked with creating a team responsible for cryptocurrency at Twitter, was one of the employees who left the company. In contrast, some of the engineers who decided to leave changed their Twitter bios, describing themselves as “Engineers sensualityor ex-engineers hardcore🇧🇷
Use many departing employees hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked to announce the decision.
“I thought my spirit was already completely crushed after the last two weeks. I was so wrong. Today was tough,” the post reads.
I thought my soul had already been completely crushed after the past two weeks. I was very wrong. Today was tough.
There will never be a better culture than we had. We know that. Every other tech company knows that.#LoveWhereYouWorked 🇧🇷
—alava. eth?? (MrAlexoChonchol) November 17, 2022
When the staff announced his departure, Musk took to social media to crack a joke. How to make a small fortune on social media? Start with a [fortuna]”, he wrote.
How to make a small fortune in social media?
Start with a big one.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
On Thursday, the words “worthless billionaire” and “bankrupt kid” were displayed in reference to Elon Musk on the walls of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, though it was not clear who organized the demonstration.
“Wannabe internet buff. Future teen idol. Hardcore zombie guru. Gamer. Avid creator. Entrepreneur. Bacon ninja.”