Elon Musk sent a message to the Twitter team saying that employees have until Thursday (17) to consider whether they want to continue “working long hours at high intensity” or receive a severance payment consisting of three months of pay.
Musk told company officials that anyone who has not clicked on a link that confirms “you want to be a part of the new Twitter” by Thursday night New York time will be considered fired from the company.
“Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful,” reads the billionaire’s message.
A copy of the message, published by The Washington Post, was seen by Reuters. A source who received the message on the social media platform confirmed its contents.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
“In the future, to build an innovative Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely ‘hardcore,'” states Musk’s message. “That will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
Musk said Twitter will be “much more engineering-oriented” under his leadership, adding that “those who write great code will make up the majority of our team and have the most influence.”
Twitter laid off half of its workforce earlier this month, shortly after Musk took control of the social media company. The billionaire criticized the company’s spending and work culture and said the company needs big cost cuts.
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