After firing 50 per cent of the workforce last week, Elon Musk is making new rules for the existing employees. He met the remaining Twitter employees on Thursday and said that everyone needs to come to office and atleast 40 hours a week, which is 8 hours for 5 working days. The billionaire added that people who do not wish to return to office can simply resign.
Musk is introducing the same policy that he maintains in both Tesla and SpaceX at Twitter. Beginning this year, the billionaire asked all Tesla and SpaceX employees to return to office and asked people unwilling to come back to office to resign. The same is happening at Twitter.
In a recent meeting, Musk told Twitter employees that rules are changing and everyone should follow them. According to The Verge, Musk said, "There are plenty of people at Tesla and SpaceX that do work remotely, but it is on an exception basis for exceptional people. And I totally understand if that doesn't work for some people. That's the new philosophy at Twitter. Let me be crystal clear."
"If people do not return to the office when they are able to return to the office, they cannot remain at the company. End of story," the Twitter boss told employees. Musk said people who do not wish to come to office can resign. "If you can show up in an office and you do not show up at the office: resignation accepted. End of story," he said.
The billionaire did announce exceptions for some people. He said "if somebody's contribution is so significant that they can overcome the communication difficulties of being remote, then they should absolutely remain at Twitter. But it will be a higher bar. They have to be that much better to overcome the communication issues of being remote."
Twitter and its employees are having a tough time lately. After Musk took over and became the sole board member of the microblogging site, he fired 50 per cent of the workforce globally and blamed the drop in ad revenue for it.
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