Musk bans smart working for Twitter employees
In his first email to Twitter employees, new owner Elon Musk said remote working will no longer be allowed.
If Musk sent half of Twitter's employees home, now the other half wants her fixed in the office.
In his first email to staff, Elon Musk announced that Twitter employees would stop working remotely and will have to spend at least 40 hours a week in the office. Bloomberg reports, according to which "difficult times" are coming for the staff of the well-known social platform.
“There is no way to sweeten the message,” the South African-born billionaire adds in the email.
Musk completed the purchase of Twitter for about $ 44 billion two weeks ago and has since announced the layoff of half of the employees , as well as some of the company's executives, and a host of news for the platform. , including "the blue check" for a fee of $ 8 per month.
After the cold shower with the dismissal of half of the staff, for the other half there is a new strict policy on smart working. When Twitter reopened its offices in March, the San Francisco-based company announced that employees could still work from home if they wanted to.
But the move by the American businessman reflects the policies of his other company, Tesla, where he instructed employees to work in the office at least 40 hours a week or to leave.
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THE TWITTER WORK ACCORDING TO MUSK
Elon Musk has banned remote working for Twitter, warning that the social media platform needs "hard work" in the office to change its fate.
"The road ahead is tough and will require hard work to be successful," Musk wrote in the employee email viewed by the Financial Times .
"We are . . . modifying Twitter's policy so that remote working is no longer allowed, unless you have a specific exception ”. Employees must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week, except for those "physically unable to travel" or with a "critical personal obligation," according to the email.
Musk added that he would review and approve any exemptions from the policy himself, instructing managers to draw up lists of all staff intending to continue working remotely.
WHAT THE FORMER CEO HAD ESTABLISHED
A reversal of course for the San Francisco company compared to the pre-Musk era. Former CEO Parag Agrawal said in March of this year – before Musk offered to buy the company – that staff could work from home "full time forever."
THE OBJECTIVES
Additionally, Musk also asked staff to work around the clock on new products, including a subscription fee to allow users to access a blue check mark on their profile, as well as features like the edit button.
In the email, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX hopes that "premium" subscriptions will account for about half of Twitter's revenue.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/musk-mette-al-bando-lo-smart-working-per-i-dipendenti-di-twitter/ on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 06:46:29 +0000.