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Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
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Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#62At 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
Probably it takes more than a week to find a new job and people like to have the new job in hand before quiting the old one.
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#63The one-sidedness of the comments in this thread surprise me. If you want to work remotely, don’t work at Twitter. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Musk thinking it’s more beneficial for his employees to work in the office. He has goals and methods of working towards them. He wants likeminded people to work towards those goals. Can you really not think of pros and cons of either situation? To give my opinion, if…
It’s fair to critique someone who just upended the lives of all these people.
Yeah, but most of the posts here aren't really critique, they're just sarcastic scorn. We get it, HN, you like remote work a lot and can't imagine any alternative.
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#64What are the chances that Musk composed and sent this email while working remotely? Very high I reckon.
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#65What are the chances that Musk composed and sent this email while working remotely? Very high I reckon.
100%. Rules are for other people.
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#66I am split on the remote work thing from a productivity / creativity perspective. I do think there are times when I'm less productivity working from home compared to the office. I also think as a team we're less creative. Some of the best stuff I've done in my career has come out of casual conversations with my team about the stuff we're building. I've noticed I don't think about what I'm building as much when workin…
How long is your commute?
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#67At 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
Layoffs started over the summer. Hiring freezes had been implemented.
I'm sure many twitter employees thought he would drag his feet or the deal would fall through, and they'd have at least a year+ of time before he comes in.
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#68I am split on the remote work thing from a productivity / creativity perspective. I do think there are times when I'm less productivity working from home compared to the office. I also think as a team we're less creative. Some of the best stuff I've done in my career has come out of casual conversations with my team about the stuff we're building. I've noticed I don't think about what I'm building as much when workin…
> I think I'm at my best when it's 2-3 days in the office and the rest working from home.
And all the evidence agrees. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-unintended-consequences...
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#69At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.
Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.
The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.
Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
#70Lay off a sizable chunk of your workforce, and then make a sizable chunk of those who kept their jobs miserable. Genius /s
Or quit voluntarily.
As Musk and Calacanis discussed between themselves: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-jason-calacanis-mes...