Commitment “too hardcore” or layoffs? Musk forces Twitter employees to choose

Elon Musk gave Twitter employees two options: Either make a “very strict” commitment or accept the redundancy agreement. The proposal was sent Wednesday to the North American company’s workers, in an email titled “Fork in the Road.”

“Let’s move forward, to build disruptive Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we have to be very tough,” wrote the North American entrepreneur, owner of the social network.

But what does that meanExtremely hardcore🇧🇷 Musk explains: “This means working long hours at a high intensity. Only exceptional offers will get a positive note.The form offers an option to accept, eg ABC🇧🇷

Deadline for employees to decide if they want to be a part of this.”New TwitterIt ends on Thursday at 17:00 (local time, 22:00 in Lisbon). If you do not respond in the affirmative within the specified period, you will be excluded from the company, and you will receive compensation equal to three months’ salary.

Elon Musk wants to change the direction of Twitter and make the platform more “Engineering driven“, Once, “in the background“, the billionaire considers that the company”Software and servers🇧🇷

“Product design and management will continue to be very important and report to me, but so are those who write great code [informático] They will make up the majority of our team and have an even greater impact,” the billionaire writes.

Since Elon Musk took over the helm of Twitter, after buying the social network for nearly $44 billion (about €42.5 billion), many controversies have been announced.

In the early days, the founder of Tesla Fire the executives And the Lay off half of the company’s employees🇧🇷 next Remote work prohibited in the company fired “dozensof workers who criticized him on an internal chat platform.