Since Elon Musk decided to acquire Twitter, things have gone from bad to worse. When he finally acquired it he began a wave of resignations and layoffs resulting in the once powerful social network facing problems. At the same time those laid off seem to be in a very advantageous position in terms of finding a job.
The billionaire fired 3,700 employees overnight, about half of Twitter's workforce. In addition to the layoffs, massive resignations with the head of the company's France branch being the latest manager to leave.
What the departing manager wrote
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"Are you repulsed by Elon Musk's chauvinistic management style? Come to us!" Tech companies "starving" for talent are calling out to the thousands of former Twitter employees who saw the exit door when the social networking company passed into the hands of its new owner.
Further, Amanda Richardson, CEO of recruiting startup CoderPad, posted an open letter to Twitter leavers. Referring to Musk's initial ban on remote working, Richardson described Musk's buyout as a "s*** show" that was "terribly frustrating, depressing and discouraging."
"At CoderPad, we believe your skills say it all. Not where you work from. Nor should you work 7 days a week for 18 hours a day," he wrote A recent report from market analysis firm Gartner found that the proliferation of digitization of business and government services have created a "hyper-competitive" market for talent.
"From our perspective it's a great opportunity as people who wouldn't even talk to us are now frustrated and looking to us," Michael Winning, chief executive of US cloud and software company Calix, told Reuters. "The toxic culture in workplaces makes them say 'enough is enough'."
How industry executives comment on Musk's move
Katie Burke, head of human resources at US software company Hubspot, accused Musk of firing -and- those who criticized them.
"As a leader, criticism is part of your job," she wrote in a post on Linkedin. "Great leaders recognize that disagreement and dialogue makes us better and is part of the process. If you want a place where you can disagree (in a polite, clear way of course) with people, HubSpot is hiring."
Closed offices
The departures include many engineers responsible for fixing bugs, which raises questions about the stability of the platform and sparks debate among senior executives about which of those who left should return, current and former employees said, according to the Guardian.
In an early indication that the number of those who refused to sign the ultimatum was higher than expected, Musk partially revised his decision to put the brakes on telecommuting, telling employees on Thursday that they would be allowed to work remotely if their managers claimed they had made "an outstanding contribution."
Twitter later announced via email that it would close "our office buildings" to employees by Monday, the New York Times reported. The company's security services began evicting employees from the offices on Thursday afternoon, a source told Reuters.
Source: in.gr
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