According to a report by CNBC, hundreds of employees resigned on Thursday after Twitter head. Elon Musk gave an ultimatum to the employees to commit to a hardcore work environment.
Moreover, according to a memo viewed by Bloomberg, the company’s internal chat groups were flooded with emojis and farewell messages. This happened after Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to commit to hardcore work environment. Employees including engineers announced their exit.
However, Twitter closed all its offices for the next week as a large number of employees decided to leave.
According to the sources, the offices are being closed to avoid confusion as many employees still have access to the company property.
Elon Musk Ultimatum: Employees mass resignations
There’s no clarity regarding how many employees are part of the mass resignations.
One of the engineers’ said, “Entire teams representing critical infrastructure are voluntarily departing the company, leaving the company at serious risk of being able to recover. We are skilled professionals with lots of options, so Elon has given us no reasons to stay and many to leave,” the engineer said”.
A day before the resignations rolled in, Elon Musk asked employees to brace for long hours at “high intensity”. He added that, “we will need to be extremely hardcore” for Twitter to succeed. The staff were instructed to complete the online form by the end of the day on Thursday or leave and accept three months severance.
On the other hand, about two dozen workers were fired as they messaged criticizing Musk’s actions on Slack, which the company uses for internal messaging.
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