After Elon Musk has taken up Twitter and made various changes, it seems the employees are in for a tough ride. The new boss Elon wants some things done and he wants them done, now! The management had told employees that they will have to work extra hours to meet the tight deadlines made by Elon Musk, and also if they failed to meet the deadline they could simply lose their jobs.
Employees have been asked to work 12 hours a day for 7 days a week. Though, no overtime or compensation has been discussed yet. Elon has suddenly made huge changes in the company, which is costing much to the employees. It is being seen as a make-or-break for employees and it is heard that 50% layoffs are being threatened to ensure the deadlines are taken seriously.
Musk has a couple of things in mind - encouraging free speech, monetizing Twitter better and making it more accessible to everyone. Musk has plans to monetize the Twitter blue tick subscription and revise the entire process, and engineers have been given a deadline of November 7 to launch the paid verification feature. He explained on Twitter that the platform needs more revenue and that it can’t just rely on advertisers to generate revenue. With a majority of the top management including the CEO Parag Agarwal, the CFO and the legal counsel being fired, implementing such tough diktats is looking like a gigantic challenge.
Musk is also planning to end Twitter’s work-from-home policy and will require all engineers, coders, and support staff to work from their respective offices. The company has also sent out internal emails to inform that the layoffs will begin soon.
The email sent to employees informing them to go home on Friday, asking them to wait for their fate read something like this:
Team,
In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday. We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company's success moving forward.
Given the nature of our distributed workforce and our desire to inform impacted individuals as quickly as possible, communications for this process will take place via email. By 9 AM PST on Friday, Nov. 4th, everyone will receive an individual email with the subject line: Your Role at Twitter. Please check your email, including your spam folder.
If your employment is not impacted, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email.
If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification with the next steps via your personal email.
If you do not receive an email from twitter-hr@ by 5 PM PST on Friday, Nov. 4th, please email xxxxxxxx.
To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended. If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.
We acknowledge this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through, whether or not you are impacted. Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.
We are grateful for your contributions to Twitter and for your patience as we move through this process.
Thank you.
Seems ominous enough to send these emails out to all your employees with a natural next step of inviting legal trouble. It is now being reported that Twitter has been sued over its mass layoffs in a San Francisco federal court. The lawsuit alleges that the company was eliminating workers without providing enough notice, in violation of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, a federal law that requires employers to provide advance notice to employees affected by plant closings and mass layoffs.
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