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Back to your desks, Musk tells Twitter staffers

Published On: 11. November 2022 3:05

Hard times are ahead, Elon Musk has told Twitter staff, and the days of working from home are over.

Bloomberg reports that, in an email to staff, the owner of the social media firm said workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week.

He is reported as saying that there was ‘no way to sugar coat the message’ that the slowing global economy was going to hit Twitter’s advertising revenues.

In May 2020, the San Francisco-based company told its staff that they could work from home ‘forever’ if they wished to, because the company believed its remote-working measures during Covid lockdowns had been a success.

But, according to the BBC, Musk has been on the record as disapproving of remote work, tweeting earlier this year that ‘all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!’

A week after buying the company in a $44bn deal, Musk announced half of Twitter’s staff were being let go.

He said he had ‘no choice’, as the company was losing $4m a day, losses he blamed on a ‘massive drop in revenue’ due to ‘activist groups pressuring advertisers’.

Meanwhile, the BBC reports that, on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said Musk’s relationships with foreign countries were ‘worthy of being looked at’, after being asked whether Twitter’s owner posed a national security threat and if Saudi Arabia helping him to buy Twitter should be investigated.

Biden is reported as saying: ‘Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate … I’m not suggesting that. I’m suggesting it’s worth being looked at. That’s all I’ll say.’

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal remains one of Twitter’s biggest shareholders following Musk’s takeover.

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