Hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to have left the social media company’s headquarters following an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk. He mandated that his employees commit to “long hours of high-intensity work” or leave.
In a poll on the job app Blind, which verifies employees via their work email addresses and allows them to share information anonymously, 42% of 180 people chose the answer “Opt-out, I’m free!”
A quarter said they chose to stay “reluctantly”, and just 7% of survey respondents said they “clicked yes to stay, I’m hardcore”.
Musk was meeting with some top employees to try to convince them to stay, said a current employee and a recently departed employee who is in contact with colleagues at Twitter.
While it’s not clear how many employees chose to stay, the numbers highlight the reluctance of some employees to stay at a company where Musk has rushed to fire half of its employees, including top management, and is ruthlessly changing the culture to emphasize long hours and hours. an intense rhythm.
The company has notified employees that it will close its offices and cut off badge access by Monday, according to two sources. Security agents began to evict employees from the office on Thursday night, a source said.
Twitter, which has lost many members of its communications team, did not respond to a request for comment.
In a private Signal chat with about 50 Twitter employees, nearly 40 said they had decided to leave, according to the former employee.
And in a private Slack group for current and former Twitter employees, about 360 people joined a new channel titled “voluntary resignation,” said a person with knowledge of the Slack group.
A separate survey in Blind asked employees to estimate what percentage of people would leave Twitter based on their perception. More than half of respondents estimated that at least 50% of employees would leave.
Blue hearts and greeting emojis flooded Twitter and its internal chat rooms on Thursday, for the second time in two weeks, as Twitter employees took leave.
By 6 pm Eastern, more than two dozen Twitter employees in the United States and Europe had announced their departures in public Twitter posts reviewed by Reuters, although each resignation could not be independently verified.
Earlier on Wednesday, Musk had sent an email to Twitter employees, saying: “In the future, to build an innovative Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore.”
The email asked employees to click “yes” if they wanted to stay. Those who didn’t respond by 5pm. Eastern Time on Thursday would be deemed to have ended and would receive a severance package, the email said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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