There are no employees of Twitter under the halter conditions imposed by the new owner of the Elon Musk platform and hundreds leave by planting it in the trunk. The ultimatum imposed by Mask which stated “long hours with high intensity or away” expired yesterday and a large group of employees chose to leave.
The releases - as reported by the Reuters agency - highlight the reluctance of some of Twitter's 3.000 or so employees to remain at a company where Musk previously laid off half of the workforce, including top management, and is changing ruthlessly platform culture, emphasizing long hours and a busy pace.
Musk said he wasn't worried
Musk yesterday on Twitter said of do not be worried for resignation because "the best people stay”. The billionaire also added: “We just reached another all-time high in Twitter usage…”, without giving details, however.
Musk has met some of the top employees to try to convince them to staysaid a current employee and a recently departed but in-touch employee on Twitter.
The company also told employees it will close its offices and reduce access to badges through Monday, two sources reported to Reuters, while security officials have begun kicking some employees out of the office, according to another source. an office already yesterday.
More than 110 Twitter employees on at least four continents have announced their decision to leave by writing public posts on Twitter, while 15 employees, many in ad sales, announced their intention to stay with the company.
In internal chat instead of Twitter, over 500 employees wrote farewell messagesa source said.
A survey about the app on Blind, which polls employees via their work email addresses and allows them to share information anonymously, showed that 42% of 180 respondents opted for “By taking the exit option, I'm free!” A quarter said they chose to stay 'reluctantly' and just 7% of survey participants said they 'clicked yes to stay'. Twitter has not commented.
There are now fears about the stability of the platform
Departures include many engineers responsible for bug fix and the prevention of service interruptions, raising questions about the stability of the platform amid the loss of employees.
Last night's version ofTwitter apps used by employees has started to slow down, according to a source who doesn't rule out a breakup of the Public app. "If it breaks down, there's no one left to fix things in many areas," said the source who she declined to be named for fear of retaliation.
Le outage reports of Twitter jumped sharply from fewer than 50 to about 350 reports last night, according to the website Downdetector, which tracks website and app outages. In a private Signal chat with about 50 Twitter staffers, nearly 40 said they had decided to leave, according to the former employee.
And in a Slack group private for the current and former employees of Twitter, about 360 people have joined a new channel titled "voluntary layoffs," said a person familiar with the Slack group.
In another survey by Blind staff were asked to estimate what percentage of people might leave Twitter based on their perception of it. More than half of respondents estimated that at least 50% of employees could leave.
The deadline was 17:00 PM Eastern Time on Thursday
On Wednesday, Musk had sent an email to Twitter employees, saying: "Moving forward, to build a revolutionary Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will have to be extremely hardcore."
The email asked the staff to click 'yes' if they wanted to stay. Those who didn't respond by 17:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday would be deemed fired and given a severance pay, the email said.
As the deadline approached, employees scrambled to figure out what to do. Blue hearts and greeting emojis flooded Twitter and its internal chat rooms yesterday, the second time in two weeks, as Twitter employees said goodbye. Notable departures include Tess Rinearson, who had been tasked with building a cryptocurrency team on Twitter. .
