Elon Musk paid more than $44 billion to acquire Twitter, and since then has been busy making some changes to the social media platform, and in the past two days, there have been very few first steps for Twitter employees - they received their first official email from their new boss. They also held their first working meeting.According to a report by The Verge, Musk talked about a slew of things and Twitter employees had some questions for him, and one of the burning questions was about working from home.
For example, Apple has a three-day office work policy while quite a few others have taken a different approach. Interestingly, Twitter at the height of the pandemic was one of the first companies to say there was absolutely no need to come to the office and had a work policy. From home almost "indefinitely", but not anymore as Musk has categorically said that working from home will not continue. It's just my philosophy that people are more productive when they're in person because communication is so much better," Musk told employees in response to a question about working remotely. Getting to his co-workers in person anyway, and an employee wondering why you're asking this? To this, Musk replied, "Let me be pretty clear, if people don't come back to the office when they're able to go back to the office, they can't stay in the company. The employee insisted on his questioning line and said that even if people came to their office and were in different offices, it was not really personal business, to Musk's response: "Basically, if you can come in the office and you don't show up at the office: the resignation is accepted, end of story ".
Elon Musk's new "philosophy" on Twitter
Musk also told employees that if someone's contribution is so important that they can overcome the communication difficulties of being apart, they should stay on Twitter entirely, "but it would be a higher standard," before adding that it would be "on an exception basis for exceptional people," he said. Musk said he would understand that if this new scheme of things didn't work for some people, but "that's the new philosophy at Twitter."
Musk also said he did not expect people to spend "crazy hours", telling employees, according to a report by The Verge: "It's not like many hours, I'm going to spend many hours in the office, but I'm not asking anyone else to spend many hours in the office. My
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