>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.
…
>As we’re all very aware, folks on visas are stuck, so thats who makes up most of the roughly 25% (or less than 1,000….) expected to stay. The actual impact is not yet known — there have been no internal comms about what comes next. We’re nearly 2 hours post deadline.
>Update: Employee’s badge access has been disabled until Monday. It does seem like there will be … not much left of the company by then.
>Something I can now add: 10% of the 3,700ish remaining employees deemed critical were called to a meeting an hour before the 5PM deadline today. The invite was sent around midnight but got cancelled by noon.
>Story* to be updated soon with more: Am hearing that several “critical” infra engineering teams at Twitter have completely resigned. “You cannot run Twitter without this team,” one current engineer tells me of one such group.
>No special exceptions made for those on parental leave or with work visas, either. …
>Twitter employees are being forced today to make a decision with no details on either end of their answer: If they stay, they don’t yet know how their comp will work with Musk’s coming stock plan, and if they leave they don’t get to see their actual severance agreement yet
>We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.
>Offices will reopen on November 21st. In the meantime: "Please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere."
>if you're a twitter employee and would like to share how things are going, email me at mia@theverge.com. everything off the record until you say so/agree.
…
>As we’re all very aware, folks on visas are stuck, so thats who makes up most of the roughly 25% (or less than 1,000….) expected to stay. The actual impact is not yet known — there have been no internal comms about what comes next. We’re nearly 2 hours post deadline.
>Update: Employee’s badge access has been disabled until Monday. It does seem like there will be … not much left of the company by then.
>Something I can now add: 10% of the 3,700ish remaining employees deemed critical were called to a meeting an hour before the 5PM deadline today. The invite was sent around midnight but got cancelled by noon.
https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593397277837565952