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'Work for long hours at high intensity or take severance package': Elon Musk tells Twitter staff

| @indiablooms | Nov 17, 2022, at 01:52 am

San Francisco/IBNS: New boss Elon Musk has sent a message to Twitter employees telling them that they had until Thursday to consider whether they wanted to stay with the social media giant for "working long hours at high intensity" or take a severance package of three months payment.

Musk told Twitter staff that anyone who had not clicked on a link confirming "you want to be part of the new Twitter" by Thursday evening New York-time would be considered to have quit.

"Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful," his message reportedly.

"Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore," the message from Musk, as reported by The Washington Post, said.

"This will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade," it added.

Musk said Twitter would be "much more engineering-driven" under his leadership, adding that "those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway."

Elon Musk completed a deal to buy Twitter at 44 billion US dollars in October, gaining control of the social network company.

After taking over the reins, Twitter half of its employees in departments across the company as part of an aggressive plan to trim costs.

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