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Employees resign from Twitter after American oligarch Elon Musk issues ultimatum, locks staff out of building

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After an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk, hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to be leaving the beleaguered social media company.

Musk earlier warned the employees saying that staffers to sign up for long hours at high intensity, or leave.

In a poll on 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 “Taking exit option, I’m free!”, international news agency Reuters reported.

The report quoting a quarter said they had chosen to stay “reluctantly,” and only 7% of the poll participants said they “clicked yes to stay, I’m hardcore.”

Musk was meeting some top employees to try and convince them to stay, Reuters quoted one current employee and a recently departed employee who is in touch with Twitter colleagues, as saying.

While it is unclear how many employees have chosen to stay, the numbers highlight the reluctance of some staffers to remain at a company where Musk has hastened to fire half its employees including top management, and is ruthlessly changing the culture to emphasize long hours and an intense pace.

The company notified employees that it will close its offices and cut badge access until Monday, the report said quoting two sources. Security officers have begun kicking employees out of the office on Thursday evening, one source told Reuters.

 

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