Less than half of Twitter's remaining employees signed up to work for Elon Musk's 'hardcore' vision, leaving leaders scrambling to convince people to stay
People being pitched on why they should stay with Twitter were not offered more money, but instead were urged to be excited about Musk's"vision" for Twitter and its future potential, the person familiar said.
It worked for some people, one employee said, but many still refused and effectively tendered their resignation. One method that seemed more successful in convincing people to stay was having peers who had already decided to stay on speak directly to colleagues who did not sign up, the employee said.
Nevertheless, it seems that Twitter will be down over 2,000 more employees just two weeks after Musk's mass layoff of roughly 3,500 people. Many workers who declined to sign up for"Twitter 2.0" consulted with lawyers before making their decision, two people familiar with those discussions said. After Musk's deadline passed, Twitter's largest Slack channel"social watercooler" was"flooded again" with the salute emoji, a former employee said. It's become something of a company symbol for saying goodbye to colleagues, as it was used for people to say a quick goodbye as they were laid off and locked out of work tools.
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