At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.
Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
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#12It seems that Musk at this point is completely unaware that he is a walking contradiction. On one hand, he is a technologist. Forward thinking and driving towards the future. On the other hand, he is an old fashioned factory owner. He views his workforce as pure labour and can't accept that he can't force his employees to work under his total control. He also can't accept the gain in life capital for his employees in…
The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.
> The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.
This is why I found reading his published chat messages [0] so interesting.
From the horse's mouth (the horse in this case being Jason Calacanis) to Musk, when talking about restructuring:
> "2 day a week Office requirement= 20% voluntary departures"
So it does seem possible that this could be at least partly driving this.
As an aside: The other interesting nugget in the msg logs was discussion about taking Twitter private to restructure (because it would require haemorrhaging users while they cleaned up bots etc. - and also likely because you wouldn't be able to take such aggressive actions re. mass sackings in quite the same way when public) and then going public again once this restructuring process has been completed.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.
So do you think he'll eventually bring back WFH for Tesla and Twitter when they want to increase headcount?
Based on reasoning in my other comment [0] I think this is highly likely.
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#14It seems that Musk at this point is completely unaware that he is a walking contradiction. On one hand, he is a technologist. Forward thinking and driving towards the future. On the other hand, he is an old fashioned factory owner. He views his workforce as pure labour and can't accept that he can't force his employees to work under his total control. He also can't accept the gain in life capital for his employees in…
> he can't force his employees to work under his total control
That is because he actually can force them to be under his control.
> He also can't accept the gain in life capital for his employees in working from home for his workforce and that the future of work for humanity is probably decentralized offices and WFH, not middle managed, over the shoulder, supervised, centralized offices.
I don't think he cares about their lives. Meanwhile, long hours in office have multiple advantages for controlling CEO like Musk. The people are removed from outside influences (friends, family, time to read) and closed in his own echo chamber. Whatever he wants to normalize, it will be harder for them to see is not normal outside of that bubble. It is another variant on what cults, monasteries, armies etc do ... the more they isolate you from outside influences, the better you surrender own agency.
Plus, people not comfortable with above self exclude. It is win win win for ceo. Not necessary effective, but produces strong loyalty and obeisance. Which has advantages also for productivity.
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#15This is a great way to drive away your best talent and ensure those who stay are more tired, frustrated, and stressed.
It also leads to more mistakes and cutting corners (usually hidden), so in the long term as they accumulate this will bite him in the ass when a particularly bad one gets out in the wild unnoticed. And I thought this guy had a high IQ, clearly he's not that bright after all.
Having a high IQ doesn't make you immune from cockups.
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#16> Musk told workers in the email that he wants to see subscriptions account for half of Twitter’s revenue. Given the direction in which their advertising revenue is going, they might get there.
> subscriptions account for half of Twitter’s revenue
A lofty ambition indeed. Getting $5billion out of twitter users or an anual subscription of $15 out of 100% of the users sounds like hard work. However, if you drop the avertising revenue to $350 million you can do the WhatsApp $1 a year model.
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#17This is a great way to drive away your best talent and ensure those who stay are more tired, frustrated, and stressed.
Twitter doesn't need "best people" - it's not innovating and hasn't been for a very long time.
Have you any idea what it takes simply to maintain a machine such as twitter, let alone make even minor alterations? There was a recent telling interview by someone who used to work there who thought it wouldn't be long until the whole thing collapses on its own because there were huge teams dedicated to simply keeping the thing running.
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#18Many technical parts of the company had 80% layoffs last week. The people who quit or quiet quit over this senseless RTO mandate will push the company into an unrecoverable brain drain, if they're not already there.
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#19This is a great way to drive away your best talent and ensure those who stay are more tired, frustrated, and stressed.
Twitter doesn't need "best people" - it's not innovating and hasn't been for a very long time.
"Innovating" is not the only nor primary thing that requires "best people".
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#20At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.
Over summer, tech companies were offering wheelbarrows full of cash to potential employees. Love him or hate him, once he started f'ing around at twitter, why would anyone have stayed?
Unless you really desperately wanted to be in the presence of the man himself, and maybe thought he was going to buy you a horse in exchange for something