In his first emails to Twitter employees, Musk talks about ending distant work and battling verified spam • TechCrunch

Greater than 10 days after taking up Twitter, Elon Musk addressed the corporate’s staff for the primary time in a sequence of emails. He talked about ending distant work and making the combat towards spam a precedence.

Based on a report from Bloomberg, the brand new CEO requested staff to be prepared for “tough instances forward.” On the identical time, he requested them to mandatorily work from the workplace except an worker acquired a private exemption. The report additionally stated that the staff must put in a minimum of 40 hours per week working from the workplace and these insurance policies are efficient instantly.

This isn’t actually shocking as, throughout a Q&A with Twitter employees in June, Musk stated solely “distinctive” staff would be capable of work remotely. Across the identical time, he ended the distant work coverage for Tesla staff and requested them to spend a minimum of 40 hours per week within the workplace.

Throughout the first few days after taking management of Twitter, Musk fired prime executives, tweeted about introducing new verification and subscription plans, and laid off half of the employees. However he simply received time to handle the remaining staff. All this whereas, the employees was residing in uncertainty concerning the route of the corporate and the way their roles would change.

The billionaire has set aggressive product deadlines after promising to deliver a ton of options by a bunch of tweets. Now deleted tweets from staff prompt that they needed to sleep on the workplace to satisfy a few of these new product deadlines.

Earlier this month, Musk additionally eradicated company-wide relaxation days that have been launched in the course of the pandemic. In 2020, Twitter was one of many first firms to permit staff to work remotely eternally.

The Bloomberg report additionally famous that, in a separate e mail, Musk requested Twitter employees to make it a precedence to battle verified spam, bots and impersonation. After he introduced the plans to introduce new verification by a paid program, a bunch of legacy verified accounts modified their profile to mimic Musk. In response, he stated that any verified account indulging in impersonation might be banned.

On Thursday, the social community debuted its new Twitter Blue program for $8 a month permitting individuals to purchase out verified verify marks. Quickly after the roll-out, a bunch of accounts began impersonating manufacturers, athletes and officers internationally. Within the phrases of the brand new subscription plan, Twitter has specified that new accounts can’t join this providing but. The corporate has taken this step to presumably scale back spam. It’s also stopping current verified accounts from altering their show names.

“Twitter Blue subscribers might be unable to alter their show title after receiving a blue checkmark. We might be implementing a brand new course of quickly for any show title modifications,” the terms learn. 

So total, the corporate has had a messy begin to the Musk period with an especially tough rollout to an formidable subscription program.