The C.E.O of Twitter Elon Musk has informed his staff that remote working will end and “difficult times” lie ahead.
Musk announced this new move via an email to staff, which stated that workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week.
As reported by BBC News, the Tesla boss lamented that there was “no way to sugar coat the message” pointing that the slowing global economy was going to hit Twitter’s advertising revenues.
It was gathered that the San Francisco-based company told its staff in May 2020 that they could work from home “forever” if they wished to, because the company believed its remote working measures during Covid lockdowns had been a success.
However,the new C.E.O has been on the record as having a dim view of remote work, writing on the site he now owns earlier this year that “all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!”
In June, Elon Musk, told staff at Tesla,his brand of electric car making that working remotely was no longer acceptable.
Like at Tesla, the entrepreneur said he would only grant exemptions personally for Twitter staff who want to work remotely.
The world’s richest man has already announced half of Twitter’s staff were being let go, a week after he bought the company in a $44bn (£38.7bn) deal.
Mr Musk said he had “no choice” over the cuts as the company was losing $4m (£3.51m) a day. He has blamed “activist groups pressuring advertisers” for a “massive drop in revenue”.
