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100s of Twitter employees leaving after Musk's 'extremely hardcore' work demands

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Re: 100s of Twitter employees leaving after Musk's 'extremely hardcore' work demands

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Question: What does 7500 employees do at Twitter? I cannot fathom what they do. Can someone help me with some general percent breakdown? How many are management, support, coders, testers, etc?

How many employees do you think Youtube has?

Re: 100s of Twitter employees leaving after Musk's 'extremely hardcore' work demands

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Extreme commitment makes sense if you believe in the mission. Such as saving the planet with EVs. Not sure what Twitter's altruistic mission is. Giving up family life to enable trolls may not seen like a good trade.

So far it seems like Elon wants to turn Twitter into a less horrible version of 8chan, but the lessons in real-world moderation will come fast and hard. I wager it's going to get nastier before it gets any better.

Re: 100s of Twitter employees leaving after Musk's 'extremely hardcore' work demands

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Kylie Robison (Tech reporter for @FortuneMagazine): What I’m hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email. https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593391167718113280

That brings it down to under 1000 employees So Elon paid $44B for a company now with 900-odd employees. For a 10-year ROI, that's $4.4B per year profit, or $440 million/per employee For contrast, Netflix has the highest revenue per employee at $2.63 million/person, and Apple is second at $2.38 million, and Alphabet & Meta next at $1.64, and eBay at $0.9 million per employee. So, he'll need to get 200x the profitabili…

What I've wondered through all this is whether he intends to bring in different contractors than than were there before to replace everyone he is firing or causing to quit. Contractors are more disposable and often cheaper.
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