Elon Musk tells Twitter staff in email to accept ‘hardcore’ culture or leave


Musk said in the note that Twitter will be more dominated by engineers going forward, making up the majority of remaining employees and having the greatest influence at the company, which he called a ‘software and servers company’ at its heart. — Reuters

Elon Musk sent an email to Twitter Inc employees requiring them to pledge to stay with the company, working long hours at “high intensity” during its transformation, or to accept a buyout.

Staff will have to complete the online form by 5pm New York time on Nov 17 or accept three months severance. For Twitter to succeed, “we will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk said in the email, which was seen by Bloomberg.

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