Elon Musk Sends Stern Email To Twitter Employees At Unusual Time: ‘Office Is Not Optional’

TwitterCEOElon Musk chose an odd time toemailemployees last week about the social media company's remote-working policy.

"Office is not optional," the billionaire entrepreneurwrote in an email to the staff that was sent at 2:30 am on Wednesday, according to a tweet fromZo Schiffer, the managing editor at Platformer.

Per Schiffer's tweet, Musk wrotein his memo that the company's headquarters in San Francisco "was half empty yesterday."

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ALSO: Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email at 2:30am saying the “office is not optional” and noting SF was half empty yesterday. Zo Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 22, 2023

LastNovember, Muskbanned remote work at Twitterin his first email to the staff afterbuying the company.

He explainedthat the social media platform required"intense work" in the office in order toturn around its fortunes and that employees must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week.

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Even atTesla IncTSLA ,Musk asked staff to returnto the office or elsethey would be fired.

In a tweet last year, Musk said that working from home during the pandemic had "tricked" people into thinking they didn'tneed to work hard.

Yes, but this is actually a good thing. It has been raining money on fools for too long. Some bankruptcies need to happen.

Also, all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you dont actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound! Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2022

In November,Twitter laid off thousands of workers in departments across the company, a move Musk attempted to justify.This past January, the companylaid off employees who were responsiblefor global content moderation.

Reports previously notedthat the social media platform had shed about 80% of its employees since Musk'stakeover and that the headcount hoveredat around 1,300 employees earlier this year. Musk later dispelled those figures and said that Twitter hadabout2,300 active employees.

The company posted a net loss of $270 million in the second quarter, which ended onJune 30, 2022, compared to a profit of $66 million in the same period the prior year.

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