Weeks after significant layoffs, Elon Musk tells Twitter staff that he is prepared to hire again
- According to rumours, Twitter is hiring for its engineering and sales divisions.
- Following Musk's ultimatum, hundreds of Twitter staff quit.
- Musk said through Twitter that Twitter Blue's relaunch had been put on hold.
In an all-hands meeting, Twitter's new owner Elon Musk reportedly informed the workforce that there are no further layoffs planned and that the firm is hiring for engineering and ad sales positions. Musk announced on Monday that Twitter Blue's relaunch had been postponed until there was 'great certainty of halting impersonation.'
Elon Musk reportedly informed staff members at a hands-on meeting that Twitter is now actively recruiting, weeks after the company let go more than half of its 7,500 employees. According to reports, Twitter's remaining employees were informed that the company wants to grow its engineering and sales teams and has urged staff to recommend qualified candidates.
The announcement comes a week after it was reported that hundreds of Twitter workers had left the company as a result of the new owner Elon Musk's ultimatum for employees to sign up for long work hours or quit. The previous week, Musk sent an email to Twitter staffers with the following message: 'Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in a more competitive market, we will need to be incredibly hardcore.'
The email invited employees to respond 'yes' if they wished to stay on. According to the email, those who did not reply by Thursday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time would be deemed to have resigned and would receive a severance payment.
In a study about the business software Blind, which allows anonymous information exchange and authenticates users through their work email addresses, 42% of 180 participants chose the option to 'Taking exit choice, I'm free!' Only 7% of those who responded to the poll asserted, 'I clicked yes to stay, I'm diehard,' while 25% said they had chosen to stay 'reluctantly.'
The Twitter biographies of many departing staffers last week identified them as 'softcore engineers' or 'ex-hardcore engineers,' in what appeared to be a dig at Musk's call for workers to be 'hardcore.'