It's not just Elon Musk. Tech CEOs everywhere are quietly asking their employees to step it up or risk getting fired.
Although other tech CEOs have not issued edicts as aggressive as Musk's, this year's economic downturn prompted leaders across the tech industry to tell workers they'll need to work harder, albeit couched in more diplomatic language.
If their language wasn't as belligerent as Elon's, the message was still similar: people would be expected to step up or find somewhere else to work.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff in early July that he would dial up the intensity of employee performance goals. "Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn't be here," Zuckerberg."And part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might just say that this place isn't for you. And that self-selection is okay with me."
Later that month during the Q2 earnings call, Zuckerberg doubled down on that vision and shared that the company planned to"and that"many teams are going to shrink so we can shift energy to other areas inside the company." In October, Meta told managers to mark 15% of its employees as"needs support" in what workers dubbed"quiet layoffs," Insider
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