Musk orders workers to decide to 'hardcore' Twitter or settle for severance

Elon Musk has amped up his stress on Twitter staff by demanding they comply with adhere to new requirements or resign.

Twitter's proprietor issued a memo late Tuesday informing staff that they needed to signal a pledge to stick with the corporate, in line with the Washington Put up. If they didn't signal by Thursday night, they'd be dismissed and obtain three months of severance pay. The memo displays Musk's want to chop prices on the firm as he prepares to cowl the prices of buying Twitter for $44 billion.

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Twitter would now be "extraordinarily hardcore," in line with Musk. "This may imply working lengthy hours at excessive depth. Solely distinctive efficiency will represent a passing grade."

The ultimatum comes lower than per week after Musk reversed the corporate's remote-work coverage and demanded that workers work within the workplace or face being laid off. Musk already laid off roughly half of the corporate's workers and continues to say that the corporate remains to be bloated. Musk is anticipated to pay $1 billion in curiosity a 12 months to repay the loans he acquired to amass the corporate.

Musk additionally delayed one of many firm's most anticipated updates to its premium service. Musk unveiled that he would permit customers to get verified for $7.99 a month through Twitter Blue and had meant to launch the product after the midterm elections. The billionaire later introduced that he was "punting" the launch of Blue to Nov. 29 to make sure the product was top-quality.

Twitter is going through elevated stress from advertisers who've begun to tug their campaigns from Twitter as they fear about how Musk might change the corporate's content material moderation coverage.