In an email to staff entitled 'A Fork in the Road,' Musk said Twitter would 'need to be extremely hardcore' to succeed. Those who choose to stay should expect long, intense hours of work. Those who leave will receive three months' severance pay, he wrote.
Owner Elon Musk has told remaining Twitter employees that they must decide whether to stay or go by Thursday afternoon. Here, Musk, as CEO of Tesla, speaks at a conference in Norway.CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images
In an email to staff entitled"A Fork in the Road," Musk said Twitter would "need to be extremely hardcore" to succeed. Those who choose to stay should expect long, intense hours of work. Those who leave will receive three months' severance pay, he wrote.Musk wrote that he values engineers over designers, project managers and other staff in what he envisions will be"a software and servers company.
Musk immediately fired top executives. Since then, he's laid off about half of the staff, or roughly 3,700 employees, and fired others after they publicly criticized him. People who held key roles in divisions including content moderation, cybersecurity and legal compliance have resigned.
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