According to reports, The microblogging and social networking service, Twitter staff at the company have set tasks so that it can be seen who works hard in Musk’s team.
The teams of Twitter’s engineers have been assigned coding projects to be completed over the weekend. Twitter managers have told some staff to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. That is equivalent to 84 hours a week to meet Musk’s deadlines, CNBC reported, citing internal communications.
The report said, “Task completion by the early November deadline is seen as a make-or-break matter for their careers at Twitter.”
Further, The other tasks included making major changes to Twitter’s verification service. Over the weekend, a few employees with director and vice president jobs were cut.
Earlier, it was reported that Elon Musk has the intention of starting to lay off employees at Twitter. Some managers had been told to write up lists of employees to be terminated.
Musk has terminated Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde.
Twitter employees have been bracing for layoffs since the transaction was announced in April, and Musk floated the idea of cost cuts to banking partners when he was initially fundraising for the deal.
While visiting Twitter headquarters, Musk told employees that he doesn’t plan to cut 75% of the staff when he takes over the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
On October 4, Musk agreed to proceed on his originally proposed terms, and a Delaware Chancery Court judge gave the two sides until Oct. 28 to wrap up the deal.
That deadline was met, and now Musk, who is CEO of both Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, also controls Twitter, a service he uses often but criticizes openly, and that he has promised to change dramatically. The company’s shares are no longer expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
