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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

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

wolrah wrote: post #39
jmeister wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if he(and others like me) believe that working in-person really is truly necessary for accomplishing great work?

> What if he(and others like me) believe that working in-person really is truly necessary for accomplishing great work? Well, it's his (and your) right to be wrong but that's a belief that was already on very shaky ground before 2020 and has by this point been absolutely proven wrong. Unless your job actually requires physical interaction with or proximity to a thing or other people it can almost certainly be done eq…

I don’t know, it seems not much creatively came out of tech since 2020. It’s all continuing trends started before that or living on past glory. I think you could easily argue that creativity is down in the industry.

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

jahlove wrote: post #47

Hacker News top search result for "Twitter", from two years ago: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647 Forever is a long time...

At the time people thought the pandemic would be forever…

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by harshalizee »

torben-friis wrote: post #45
ukoki wrote: post #7

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The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.

This is exactly why in my country the law uses the concept of 'acquired rights'. Basically, if an employee is consistently given a perk for a certain time, said perk implicitly becomes part of the contract and taking it away allows the worker to quit receiving the same compensation as if they've been fired.

Curious, which country(s) is this?

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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zeroonetwothree wrote: post #52
jahlove wrote: post #47

Hacker News top search result for "Twitter", from two years ago: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647 Forever is a long time...

At the time people thought the pandemic would be forever…

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Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by javchz »

watwut wrote: post #19
omega3 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

I agree, just keeping things running at that scale requiere people with some impressive skills

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by helf »

infamouscow wrote: post #48
lakomen wrote: post #26

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He's not a technologist, he's a ruthless capitalist playing with other people's money. Idk why he gets so much support. That guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He doesn't care about the planet, or the people, he cares about his bottom line and nothing else.

Do you have anything of substance to add besides ad hominem attacks that don't really even make sense? Let's break this down: > He's not a technologist, he's a ruthless capitalist playing with other people's money. Idk why he gets so much support. Calling someone a capitalist isn't the dig you think it is, especially on a website run by a VC firm. Musk has a track record for returning profit to investors. > That guy…

> Have you heard of Tesla EVs?

Have you heard that didn't invent them or even start the company or even cofound it?

Anyways, yes, he has done a lot of good and is actually smart. But it has also gone to his head and the more power and wealth he accrues the more it shows. Like with most people.

Mindlessly bashing him is just as much of a waste of time as mindlessly sucking his knob.

It is all sooo boooooring.

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by randomguy0 »

The 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 I ran a business that I was trying to grow or trying to meet lofty goals, I’d probably have people in the office too. However, I see upsides to working from home too.

I’ve been working remotely since the beginning of COVID and currently work 2,000 miles away from my work.

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Post by aaomidi »

randomguy0 wrote: post #57

The 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.

Re: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

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Post by ajkjk »

yummybear wrote: post #11

At 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.
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