More chaos on Twitter: hundreds of employees resign from the company after Musk's ultimatum

Twitter appears to be in turmoil over yet another employee exodus.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
17 November 2022 Thursday 23:38
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More chaos on Twitter: hundreds of employees resign from the company after Musk's ultimatum

Twitter appears to be in turmoil over yet another employee exodus. Once the ultimatum given on Wednesday by Elon Musk, its new owner, concluded this Thursday, in which he asked them to stay, working piecewise, or take advantage of the dismissal, a tide of workers submitted their resignation, according to the first information. Given this situation, the company has informed via e-mail that it is closing its offices until next Monday.

Internal messages, leaked to the media, showed that engineers and other employees posted farewell messages, once the time set by the boss, five in the afternoon, approached to respond to the challenge. There were hundreds of emojis, with the message "thank you for your service", along with many other farewells.

One of those who left wrote that joining Twitter was one of the easiest assignments he had ever made, but "deciding to leave today is 100% the opposite." One of the executives who recently chose to change air pointed out that this Thursday there was "a massive exodus." There were those who indicated that they opted for dismissal because of "the toxic culture" that Musk had introduced.

“These decisions cannot be made in 24 hours,” wrote another. “It's like a punch in the stomach, because it doesn't matter how you feel. If you want to stay or go, you are forced to make a decision and you have to do it against the clock, without knowing if it is the best for you and your family," added another quoted by CNN.

In an apparent attempt to avert disaster, Musk and his advisers held meetings with employees he considered critical and talked them out of leaving. He also sent a series of rather confusing messages about the policy of remote work. He gave the impression that he had softened his position on the order to return to the office and turned it into something softer, allowing people to work from home if they notified the managers and they authorized it.

But later, Musk qualified in a tweet that "there is an obvious risk that any manager who misrepresents someone's excellent or essential work, remote or not, will be fired from the company."

All this was interpreted as a nervous situation due to the clear evidence that the resignation of the employees was already underway in a substantial way. After the dismissal of half of the 7,500 members of the workforce, by order of Musk, to throw out the dissidents and critics of the new owner and the slamming of the door that not a few executives gave, hundreds of people hired by Twitter took advantage of the compensation of three months salary to leave the platform.

This only adds to the chaos in which Twitter has found itself since Musk, barely three weeks ago, completed the purchase of the social network for 44,000 million dollars.