Software developers were urged by Elon Musk to go to San Francisco and see the Twitter headquarters in person.
Owner Elon Musk delivered an SOS to the workers a day after hundreds of Twitter employees made the decision to leave: “Anyone who creates software, please come to the 10th floor at 2 PM today.” Software developers were urged by Musk through email to go to San Francisco and see the Twitter headquarters in person.
According to Bloomberg, Musk said that only people who are physically unable to travel to the Bay Area or who have personal or family issues would be excused from attending.
The owner of Twitter requested that the engineers give a bullet-point list of their coding achievements over the previous six months, as well as up to 10 screenshots of the most important lines of code. The brief visits, according to Musk, would help him “understand the Twitter tech stack.”
The letter arrived hours after Musk’s demand to commit to a “very tough” working environment led Twitter to shut its premises due to a mass evacuation. The employees were given the option of working extremely long hours or losing their jobs, according to Musk.
According to the New York Times, at least 1,200 employees quit yesterday, casting doubt on who should still have access to business property.
The wealthiest man on the planet, Elon Musk, has come under criticism for making significant alterations to the social networking firm that he acquired for $44 billion at the end of the previous month.
He had already let go of half of the company’s 7,500 employees, abandoned a work-from-home policy, and mandated lengthy work hours, all while his efforts to revamp Twitter were met with confusion and delays.
