Elon Musk Bans Remote Work at Twitter in First Email to Staff

It’s clear that Twitter proprietor and supreme ruler Elon Musk has no downside bombarding his workers with unhealthy information. In his first e mail to the remaining workers he didn’t lay off on Wednesday, Musk purportedly ended Twitter’s everlasting distant work coverage and mentioned that workers can be anticipated to be within the workplace no less than 40 hours per week.

Musk’s transfer to finish distant work was reported by Bloomberg, which obtained entry to the e-mail. While the choice from Twitter’s proprietor is no surprise—he beforehand advised Twitter staffers he was in opposition to distant work and famously fought to maintain Tesla factories open at the peak of the pandemic—it’s yet one more blow to the corporate’s battered workers, which has weathered months of uncertainty, huge layoffs, and, most not too long ago, Musk’s haphazard administration type.

Twitter’s earlier CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey, who has not too long ago quibbled with Musk on the platform over altering the identify of its group fact-checking system from “Birdwatch” to “Community Notes,” introduced that workers may work from home “forever” within the early months of the pandemic again in May 2020. However, Twitter had begun to work on providing a extra versatile work-from-home coverage, at Dorsey’s request, since 2018.

As advised by Bloomberg, Musk mentioned that the ban on distant work can be efficient instantly. Remote work would solely be allowed if he personally accepted it. This isn’t the primary time Musk has proven frustration over Twitter’s work tradition. Earlier this month, he scrapped the corporate’s month-to-month “day of rest” for staff, which it launched throughout the pandemic.

Gizmodo reached out to Twitter on Thursday morning to substantiate whether or not the knowledge reported about Musk’s e mail to staff was correct however didn’t obtain a response by the point of publication.

“The road ahead is arduous and will require intense work to succeed,” Musk mentioned in his e mail to workers, in response to Bloomberg.

Besides addressing the corporate’s distant work coverage, Musk additionally reportedly shared a few of his long-term targets with workers. He acknowledged that he needs subscriptions to make up half of Twitter’s income. When it involves priorities over the subsequent few days, “the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam,” the Twitter proprietor mentioned.