tWitter continued bleeding engineers and other workers Thursday, after new owner Elon Musk gave them the option to pledge “hard” work or quit with severance pay.
Some took to Twitter to announce their signing after Musk’s deadline to make the pledge. A number of employees went to a private forum off the company’s message board to discuss their planned departures, asking questions about how they would jeopardize their US visas or whether they would receive a promised severance pay, according to an employee who was fired earlier this week. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
While it’s not clear how many already decimated Twitter employees Musk has taken up on his offer, the latest round of departures means the platform continues to lose workers as it prepares to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. One of the busiest events in the world Twitter It can overwhelm its systems if things go wrong.
“To all the Moors who decided to make today your last day: Thanks for being such incredible colleagues through your ups and downs. I can’t wait to see what you do next,” a staff member tweeted, Esther Crawfordwho is still with the company and is working on fixing the platform’s verification system.
Since taking over Twitter less than three weeks ago, Musk has fired half of the company’s 7,500 full-time employees and countless contractors responsible for content moderation and other critical efforts. He fired senior executives on his first day as Twitter owner, while others left voluntarily in the following days. Earlier this week, he began firing a small group of engineers who spoke with him publicly or within the company slack messaging system.
Then overnight WednesdayMusk emailed Twitter’s remaining employees, saying it was a software and servers company at heart and asking employees to decide by Thursday evening whether they wanted to stay a part of the business.
Musk wrote that employees would “need to be extremely motivated” to build the “Twitter 2.0 hack” and that long hours at high intensity would be required to succeed.
But in an email on Thursday, musk He backtracked on his insistence that everyone work from the office. His initial refusal to work remotely alienated many employees who had survived the layoffs.
He softened his earlier tone in an email to staff, writing that “all that is required for approval is that your manager has a responsibility to ensure you make an excellent contribution.” Workers are also expected to hold “personal meetings with colleagues at a reasonable pace, ideally weekly, but not less than once a month”.
As of 7pm PST, the #1 trending topic in the US was “RIPTwitter,” followed by other social media platform names: “Tumblr,” “Mastodon,” and “MySpace.”
Twitter He did not respond to a message seeking comment.
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