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Hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to be leaving the beleaguered social media company following an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for "long hours at high intensity," — or leave.
Early Wednesday, Musk had emailed Twitter employees, saying: "Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore."
The email asked staff to click "yes" if they wanted to stick around. Those who did not respond by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday would be considered to have quit and given a severance package, the email said.
As the deadline approached, employees scrambled to figure out what to do.
In a poll on the workplace app Blind, which verifies employees through their work email addresses and allows them to share information anonymously, 42 per cent of 180 respondents chose the answer "Taking exit option, I'm free!"
A quarter said they had chosen to stay on at the company "reluctantly," and only seven per cent of the poll participants said they "clicked yes to stay, I'm hardcore."
The company notified employees Thursday evening that it will close its offices and cut badge access until Monday, according to two sources. Security officers have begun kicking employees out of the office, one source said.
Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday and said that he was not worried about resignations as "the best people are staying."
Offering 100% of employees an out when 90% of them hate you seems like a solid strat. What a business genius he is. :lol: