Twitter employee sleeping on office floor; Musk to cut 50% of jobs

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Viral picture shows Twitter employee sleeping on office floor; Musk to cut 50% of jobs
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.

A Viral picture shared by a Twitter employee shows his manager sleeping on the office floor at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. The photo was taken after Elon Musk purchased Twitter.

It was reported that the microblogging company, Twitter told its staff that the company has 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.

Post this, a Viral picture is circulating. This Viral image of Esther Crawford was clicked wrapped in a sleeping bag and an eye mask behind a table and some chairs.

In a series of tweets followed by Esther Crawford said, “When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork.”

Another tweet said, “Since some people are losing their minds I’ll explain: doing hard things requires sacrifice (time, energy, etc). I have teammates around the world who are putting in the effort to bring something new to life so it’s important to me to show up for them & keep the team unblocked.”

“I work with amazingly talented & ambitious people here at Twitter and this is not a normal moment in time. We are less than 1wk into a massive business & cultural transition. People are giving it their all across all functions: product, design, eng, legal, finance, marketing, etc”, she added.

“We are #OneTeam and we use the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWork to show it, which is why I retweeted with #SleepWhereYouWork — a cheeky nod to fellow Tweeps. We’ve been in the midst of a crazy public acquisition for months but we keep going & I’m so proud of our strength & resilience”, she said.

She further added, “I love my family and I’m grateful they understand that there are times when I need to go into overdrive to grind and push in order to deliver. Building new things at Twitter’s scale is very hard to do. I’m lucky to be doing this work alongside some of the best people in tech.”

Now Bloomberg News has reported that the billionaire is planning to lay off about 3,700 jobs or half of the company’s workforce in a bid to cut costs. According to reports, Twitter’s new owner will inform the staff affected on Friday.

Earlier, Musk had denied that said he was planning to lay off Twitter employees before November 1. However, When Elon Musk took control of Twitter, he fired top executives of the company, including the CEO and chief legal officer. 

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