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An ‘extremely tough’ commitment or a layoff? Musk forces Twitter employees to choose

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Elon Musk offered Twitter employees two options: either make an “extremely tough” commitment, or accept a termination agreement. The proposal was sent this Wednesday to employees of the North American company in an email with the subject “Fork in the road.”

“Let’s move forward to create a disruptive Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we must be extremely hardcore,” wrote the North American mogul, owner of the social network.

But what does it mean to beextremely hardcore“? Musk’s explanation: “This will mean long hours of high intensity work. Only exceptional performances will receive a positive rating.” The form represents an opportunity to accept how ABC.

Deadline for employees to decide if they want to be a part of this”new twitterends on Thursday at 17:00 (local time, 22:00 in Lisbon). If you do not respond in the affirmative by the due date, you will be expelled from the company and receive compensation equivalent to three months’ salary.

Elon Musk wants to change the direction of Twitter and make the platform more “engineered“, once, “in the background“, the tycoon believes that the company “software and servers“.

“Product design and management will continue to be very important and will report to me, but those who write great code [informático] they will make up the majority of our team and will have more influence,” the mogul writes.

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, after buying the social network for almost $44 billion (about 42.5 billion euros), several controversies have been made public.

In the early days, the founder of Tesla fired executives e laid off half of the company’s employees🇧🇷 After banned remote work in the company and fired”dozensfrom the workers who criticized him on the internal talk platform.

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