The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, sent out the first email to employees of the company, in which he banned permanent remote work, which has become familiar since the coronavirus pandemic. It is reported by Bloomberg.
The letter says that employees must now work from the office for at least 40 hours a week, with the exception of special cases when Musk himself approves remote work for an employee. Musk also warned of "hard times" and added that it was "impossible to gloss over the message" of the economic outlook for the ad-dependent company.
“There is a difficult road ahead and it will take hard work to achieve success. (…) Over the next few days, finding and stopping any bots/trolls/spam will be an absolute priority.”
Musk took over Twitter on October 28, when CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal left the company. The entrepreneur commented on the deal with a tweet: “The bird is free.” Bloomberg reported that Musk is going to first of all remove the option of "lifetime" blocking of accounts. The entrepreneur himself said that he bought Twitter not for profit, but to maintain a safe platform for communicating on the Internet and avoid a split in social networks.
At the same time, Musk first told users that verification on Twitter (blue checkmark) would cost $ 8, despite their objections, and also planned large-scale layoffs. In early November, Bloomberg found out that Musk plans to lay off about 3,700 employees of the company – that's half the staff.