Twitter is continuing to bleed engineers and other workers after its new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice: either pledge to “hardcore” work or resign with severance pay.
While it’s not clear exactly how many of Twitter’s already-decimated staff took Musk up on his offer, the newest round of departures means the platform is continuing to lose workers just at it is gearing up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, one of the busiest events on Twitter that can overwhelm its systems if things go haywire.
For employees posting on internal Slack channels, it was not always possible to tell if they were posting salute emojis because they were leaving or out of solidarity with departing colleagues, according to a current employee who spoke on condition of anonymity out of job security concerns, and also an employee taking the voluntary layoff who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality required to get severance pay.
Twitter leadership sent an unsigned email after the deadline announcing that offices would be closed and employee badge access disabled until Monday. No reason was given, according to the employee who took the voluntary layoff Thursday. As of late Thursday, he still had access to the company Slack. Since taking over Twitter less than three weeks ago, Musk has booted half of the company’s full-time staff of 7,500 andresponsible for content moderation and other crucial efforts. He fired top executives on his first day as Twitter’s owner, while others left voluntarily in the ensuing days. Earlier this week, he began firing a small group of engineers who took issue with him publicly or in the company’s internal messaging system.
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