SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) on the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, June 13, 2019.
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A pair of latest emails from Elon Musk to Twitter employees says managers must meet in-person with employees — even exceptional ones — at the least monthly, adding that managers will be terminated for allowing employees to work remotely in the event that they aren’t “exceptional.”
In a pair of emails sent throughout the same hour on the afternoon of Nov. 17, Elon Musk said, “Regarding distant work, all that’s required for approval is that your manager takes responsibility for ensuring that you simply are making a wonderful contribution. It’s also expected that you may have in-person meetings along with your colleagues on an affordable cadence, ideally weekly, but not lower than once per 30 days.”
Musk went on to threaten managers who don’t uphold his guidelines.
“At the danger of stating the apparent, any manager who falsely claims that somebody reporting to them is doing excellent work or that a given role is important, whether distant or not, shall be exited from the corporate.”
In the e-mail, Musk doesn’t give any guidelines on what constitutes “excellent work.”
The emails come after Musk closed a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter at the tip of October, and quickly moved to chop half of the corporate’s full-time workforce, amounting to roughly 3,700 jobs, and a big swath of contractors.
One among Musk’s first moves was to reverse the corporate’s previous “make money working from home endlessly” policy, which had been enacted by a private friend and collaborator, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
On Thursday, Musk wrote in a pair of team emails: “Going forward, to construct a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and reach an increasingly competitive world, we are going to have to be extremely hardcore. This may mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
He also said he can be positive with people who find themselves “acting at an exceptional level” staying distant in the event that they couldn’t make it in but that he preferred in-office collaboration. But employees have told CNBC that they had not gotten formal guidance from human resources on distant work.
Listed here are the emails, transcribed by CNBC:
From: Elon Musk
To: Team at Twitter
Date: Nov. 17, 2022 [Time Stamp removed]
Subject re: Fork within the Road
Regarding distant work, all that’s required for approval is
that your manager takes responsibility for ensuring that
you’re making a wonderful contribution.
It’s also expected that you may have in-person meetings with
your colleagues on an affordable cadence, ideally weekly,
but not lower than once per 30 days.
And:
From: Elon Musk
To: Team at Twitter
Date: Nov. 17, 2022 [Time Stamp removed]
Subject. re: Fork within the Road
Liable to stating the apparent, any manager who falsely
claims that somebody reporting to them is doing excellent
work or that a given role is important, whether distant or
not, shall be exited from the corporate.
