A series of Twitter employees decided to quit after Elon Musk’s “ultimatum”: “Choose to quit, I’m free!”

After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk fired 50% of the staff, including the company’s senior leaders such as CEO, CFO,… On November 16, he also sent a ultimatums asking employees to commit to working “extremely hard” or be fired.

” In the future, to build a disruptive and successful Twitter 2.0 in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to work extremely hard ,” billionaire Elon Musk wrote in an email to employees . This means long hours of intense work. Only then can a breakthrough be achieved .”

At the end of the email, he asked employees to click confirm on the link if they agreed to continue working at Twitter. Any employee who fails to do so by 5 p.m. on Thursday will be suspended for three months.

Additionally, in a poll on Blind, 42% of survey respondents chose ” Choose to quit, I’m free! “. Meanwhile, 25% said they stayed ” reluctantly ” and only 7% agreed to stay because they were ” absolutely loyal “.

A retired employee shared, this billionaire is trying to convince some top employees to stay.

Another source said that the company has sent notices to employees about closing the office and cutting off security access until November 21. On the evening of November 17, security staff began to kick employees out of the office.

Twitter did not comment on the matter. The departure of many engineers responsible for fixing bugs has raised questions about the stability of this social networking platform.

Also on November 17, the employee version of the Twitter application began to slow down. ” If Twitter crashes, no one will fix it, ” the source told Reuters.

According to Downdetector, a website that tracks website and app outages, on the evening of November 17, Twitter’s crash reports increased from 50 to 350 reports.

In a private Signal chat with about 50 Twitter employees, 40 of whom said they had decided to quit.

Reuters data shows that at least 20 employees in the US and Europe announced on Twitter that they were leaving after CEO Elon Musk’s ultimatum. In addition, a group of employees in this company have decided to retire together.

Reference: Reuters