In a poll for the workplace app Blind, which verifies employees through their work email addresses and allows them to share information anonymously, 42% of 180 people chose the answer of “Opt out, I’m free! “ A quarter said they chose to stay “reluctantly” and only 7% of those polled said they were “clicking yes to stay, I’m a die-hard”. Musk has been meeting with some top employees to try to convince them to stay, said a current employee and a recently departed employee who is in touch with colleagues on Twitter.
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Story continues below ad While it’s unclear how many employees have chosen to stay, the numbers underscore the reluctance of some executives to remain at a company where Musk has rushed to lay off half its employees, including top management, and is relentlessly changing the culture to emphasize long hours and intense pace. The company notified its employees that it will close its offices and cut off badge access until Monday, according to two sources. Security officers began evicting employees from the office on Thursday afternoon, a source said. Twitter, which has lost several members of its communications team, did not respond to a request for comment. In a private conversation at Signal with about 50 Twitter employees, nearly 40 said they had decided to leave, according to the former employee. Current trend
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And in a private Slack group for current and former Twitter employees, about 360 people joined a new channel titled “voluntary layoff,” said a person with knowledge of the Slack group. 1:57 Twitter employees sue after mass layoffs after Elon Musk buyout A separate poll for Blind asked staff to estimate the percentage of people who would leave Twitter based on their perception. More than half of respondents estimated that at least 50% of workers would leave. Story continues below ad Blue hearts and greeting emojis flooded Twitter and its internal chatrooms Thursday, for the second time in two weeks as Twitter employees said goodbye. Until 6 p.m. east, more than two dozen Twitter employees across the United States and Europe had announced their departures in public Twitter posts reviewed by Reuters, although each resignation could not be independently verified. Early Wednesday, Musk emailed Twitter employees, saying, “Going forward, to create a groundbreaking Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we’re going to have to be extremely tough.”
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The email asked staff to click “yes” if they wanted to stay. Those who did not respond by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday would be considered resigned and given a severance package, the email said. As the deadline loomed, workers scrambled to figure out what to do. A team at Twitter has decided to take the leap together and leave the company, a departing employee told Reuters. In an apparent call by Musk for employees to be “hardcore,” the Twitter profile bios of several departing engineers on Thursday described themselves as “soft core engineers” or “former hard core engineers.” (Reporting by Sheila Dang, Hyunjoo Jin and Paresh Dave; Editing by Sam Holmes)
