Elon Musk e-mailed Twitter TWTR-N employees on Friday asking that any staff who write software program code report back to the tenth ground of the workplace in San Francisco early afternoon, in accordance with an e-mail reviewed by Reuters.
The billionaire mentioned in a follow-up e-mail, “If doable, I’d admire it when you may fly to SF to be current in individual,” including he can be on the firm’s headquarters till midnight and would return Saturday morning.
He mentioned the engineers ought to report at 2 p.m. on Friday.
The emails got here a day after a whole bunch of Twitter staff have been estimated to have determined to give up the beleaguered social media firm following a Thursday deadline from Musk that staffers join “lengthy hours at excessive depth,” or go away.
The corporate had instructed staff it might shut its places of work and minimize badge entry till Monday, in accordance with two sources, and it was not instantly identified whether or not the headquarters reopened.
Musk ordered staff to e-mail him a abstract of what their software program code has “achieved” up to now six months, “together with as much as 10 screenshots of essentially the most salient traces of code.”
“There will likely be brief, technical interviews that permit me to raised perceive the Twitter tech stack,” Musk wrote in one of many emails.
Musk mentioned earlier this week that some Tesla engineers have been aiding in evaluating Twitter’s engineering groups, however he mentioned it was on a “voluntary foundation” and “after hours.”
He mentioned he would attempt to converse with distant staff by video, and that solely individuals who couldn’t bodily get to the corporate’s headquarters or have a household emergency can be excused.
In his first e-mail to Twitter staff this month, Musk mentioned: “We’re additionally altering Twitter coverage such that distant work is not allowed, except you’ve a selected exception.”
“Managers will ship the exceptions lists to me for evaluation and approval.”
Musk’s first three weeks as Twitter’s proprietor have been marked by speedy change and chaos. He shortly fired Twitter’s earlier CEO and different senior leaders after which laid off half its employees earlier this month.
Musk wrote on Twitter late on Thursday that he was not fearful about resignations as “the very best persons are staying.”
