Twitter mass resignation, a large number of Twitter staff have resigned.

 

After Elon Musk’s ultimatum to either go “hardcore” or quit their employment with severance money, the majority of Twitter employees may be considering leaving their positions. Many of the company’s workers have chosen to “go home.” Some disturbing information regarding the personnel exodus that may have already begun at Twitter have emerged from internal conversations on the business app Blind.

According to numerous press sources, on Friday, Elon Musk sent an email to the Twitter workforce requesting that any employees who develop software code come to the 10th floor of the San Francisco office in the early afternoon.

In a subsequent email, the businessman wrote, “If possible, I would prefer it if you could fly to SF to be present in person,” and added that he would remain at the company’s headquarters until midnight and would leave early on Saturday. On Friday at 2 p.m., the engineers must report.

Late on Friday, Musk launched a Twitter poll asking followers to decide whether to reactivate former US president Donald Trump’s account. According to preliminary data, 60% of voters chose yes.

Musk’s emails were sent out a day after reports claimed that between 1,000 and 1,200 Twitter employees had made the difficult decision to leave the struggling social media company as a result of Musk’s Thursday deadline for employees to sign up for “long hours at high intensity” or quit. The email and the employee decisions were also covered by The New York Times.

Numerous workers tweeted their resignations along with a variation of the internal business hashtag #lovewhereyouworked in typical Twitter form. Andrea Horst, who works on supply chain and capacity management at Twitter, wrote, “I may be #special, but gosh darn it, I’m simply not #hardcore.”

According to Reuters, which cited two unidentified individuals, the corporation had informed employees that it would close its offices and restrict badge access until Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the headquarters had reopened. Musk instructed staff to send him an email detailing the “achievements” of their software over the previous six months, “along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.” In one of the emails, Musk stated, “There will be brief technical interviews that allow me to better grasp the Twitter tech stack.”

This week, Musk claimed that certain Tesla engineers had been helping to assess Twitter’s engineering teams on a “volunteer basis” and “after hours.”

Just days before the World Cup, when the service generally anticipates a rise in traffic, crucial engineering positions are lost. The busy occasion might be a crucial test for Twitter 2.0, as Musk called it, and how the company plans to function with a smaller workforce. Only those who could not physically travel to the company’s headquarters or had a family emergency would be excused, according to Musk, who promised to try to communicate with remote workers via video.

Musk wrote: “We are also changing Twitter policy such that remote work is no longer allowed, unless you have a specific exception, in his first email to Twitter employees this month.

Dmitry Borodaenko, a Twitter employee who claimed he was fired for failing to report to work, filed a proposed class action lawsuit in response to the remote work policy. According to the complaint, Borodaenko, who has a condition that makes him susceptible to Covid-19, claims that both the remote-work policy and the demand for long, demanding hours are in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The first three weeks of Musk’s ownership of Twitter have been characterised by quick change and volatility. The previous CEO of Twitter and other senior executives were swiftly ousted, and earlier this month, he laid off half of the company’s workers. He used the Latin phrase “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” which roughly translates to “the voice of the people is the voice of God,” to announce the results of his poll on whether to reinstate Trump to the platform. There was a 24-hour polling period. He promised in May to lift Trump’s account suspension from Twitter, which followed the attack on the US Capitol last year.

Trump’s account may yet be resurrected, according to Musk, who also claimed that Twitter had reinstated other banned or suspended accounts, such as the satirical website Babylon Bee and the comedian Kathy Griffin, who was suspended after adopting Musk’s Twitter handle. As part of a significant restructuring of the business that includes significant layoffs, Musk decided to poll Twitter users about who should utilise the platform.

Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety who was recruited to allay advertisers’ worries about the platform, claimed in a New York Times opinion piece that he made the decision to leave last week since it was obvious Musk would be making decisions all by himself. According to Roth, “Twitter has little need for a trust and safety function committed to its principled evolution” if its policies are established by unilateral edict. Late on Thursday, Musk stated on Twitter that he was unconcerned about resignations because “the best people are staying.”

So, in what direction will Twitter go next? Roth written. Some of the company’s moves in the upcoming weeks and months, like as the almost certain reinstatement of Donald Trump’s account on the service, will have a noticeable, immediate effect. But in order to fully comprehend how Twitter will develop going ahead, I’d advise not only examining the decisions the business makes but also examining how Elon Musk makes them.