SpaceX proprietor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a speech with legendary crippled decorator Todd Howard (not pictured) astatine the E3 gaming normal successful Los Angeles, California, June 13, 2019.
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A brace of caller emails from Elon Musk to Twitter employees says managers indispensable conscionable in-person with employees -- adjacent exceptional ones -- astatine slightest monthly, and says managers tin beryllium terminated for allowing employees to enactment remotely if they are not "exceptional."
In a brace of emails sent wrong the aforesaid hr connected the day of Nov. 17, Elon Musk said, “Regarding distant work, each that is required for support is that your manager takes work for ensuring that you are making an fantabulous contribution. It is besides expected that you person in-person meetings with your colleagues connected a tenable cadence, ideally weekly, but not little than erstwhile per month.”
Musk went connected to endanger managers who don’t uphold his guidelines.
“At the hazard of stating the obvious, immoderate manager who falsely claims that idiosyncratic reporting to them is doing fantabulous enactment oregon that a fixed relation is essential, whether distant oregon not, volition beryllium exited from the company."
In the email, Musk does not springiness immoderate guidelines connected what constitutes “excellent work.”
The emails travel aft Musk closed a $44 cardinal acquisition of Twitter astatine the extremity of October, and rapidly moved to chopped fractional of the company's full-time workforce, amounting to astir 3,700 jobs, and a ample swathe of contractors.
One of Musk's archetypal moves was to reverse the company's erstwhile "work from location forever" policy, which had been enacted by a idiosyncratic person and collaborator of Musk, erstwhile Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
On Thursday, Musk wrote successful a brace of squad emails: “Going forward, to physique a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and win successful an progressively competitory world, we volition request to beryllium highly hardcore. This volition mean moving agelong hours astatine precocious intensity. Only exceptional show volition represent a passing grade.”
He besides said helium would beryllium good with radical who are "performing astatine an exceptional level" staying distant if they couldn't marque it successful but that helium preferred in-office collaboration. But astatine the time, employees told CNBC they had not gotten ceremonial guidance from HR connected distant work.
Here are the emails, transcribed by CNBC:
From: Elon Musk
To: Team astatine Twitter
Date: Nov. 17, 2022 [Time Stamp removed]
Subj. re: Fork successful the Road
Regarding distant work, each that is required for support is
that your manager takes work for ensuring that
you are making an fantabulous contribution.
It is besides expected that you person in-person meetings with
your colleagues connected a tenable cadence, ideally weekly,
but not little than erstwhile per month.
And:
From: Elon Musk
To: Team astatine Twitter
Date: Nov. 17, 2022 [Time Stamp removed]
Subj. re: Fork successful the Road
At hazard of stating the obvious, immoderate manager who falsely
claims that idiosyncratic reporting to them is doing excellent
work oregon that a fixed relation is essential, whether distant or
not, volition beryllium exited from the company.