Elon Musk, in first email to Twitter staff, ends remote work

New proprietor of social media big tells workers to arrange ‘for tough occasions forward’.

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Since shopping for Twitter late final month, Musk has laid off half its workforce and most of its high executives [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters]

New Twitter proprietor Elon Musk has instructed workers on the social media community that they won't be allowed to work remotely, and to arrange for “tough occasions forward”, in accordance with a media report.

In his first e-mail to Twitter employees since finishing his $44bn takeover shut to 2 weeks in the past, the world’s richest man mentioned staff can be anticipated to be current within the workplace for no less than 40 hours per week, in accordance with Bloomberg Information. He mentioned he would solely approve distant work on a case-by-case foundation.

Musk wrote there was “no strategy to sugarcoat the message” about Twitter’s difficult financial outlook and in addition harassed the “absolute high precedence” was discovering and suspending bots, trolls and spam.

“The highway forward is arduous and would require intense work to succeed,” Musk reportedly wrote within the e-mail.

Since shopping for Twitter late final month, Musk has laid off half its workforce and most of its high executives. He has additionally introduced a sequence of actions, together with charging $8 for the Twitter Blue subscription.

Within the e-mail, Musk additionally instructed workers he needed to see subscriptions account for half of Twitter’s income.

When Twitter in March reopened workplaces that had been closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, it mentioned workers may nonetheless earn a living from home in the event that they needed.

Musk’s transfer mirrored insurance policies at his different corporations, SpaceX and Tesla, the place he instructed workers to work within the workplace no less than 40 hours every week, or go away.

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(Al Jazeera)

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