According to sources, about 1,200 Twitter employees resigned on Thursday following Elon Musk’s email asking them to commit to what he called “extremely hardcore.” Musk said moving forward, employees would need to work long hours at high intensity to build Twitter 2.0 and gave employees a choice to commit to the new working condition or leave with a three-month severance.
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- Twitter had about 7,500 full-time employees in late October.
- The company laid off about 3,700 earlier this month as part of restructuring and cost-cutting measures.
- With 1,200 workers resigning on Thursday, Twitter is estimated to have about 2,600 full-time employees left.
- On Friday, Musk emailed employees asking Twitter’s software engineers who can make it to the company’s San Francisco head office to come for a 2 p.m. PT meeting.
- Musk also asked the engineers to email him a bullet point summary of code commits they have achieved in the last six months.
- The new CEO said the meeting was to help him better understand Twitter’s tech stack.
In related news:
- Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, published a guest essay with the New York Times detailing his reasons for resigning from the company and some of the huddles Twitter faces moving forward.