Elon Musk issues a directive to Twitter employees: either work “very hard” or go.

Elon Musk issues a directive to Twitter employees: either work “very hard” or go.

According to a copy of a late-night internal email received by the billionaire and acquired by CNN, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has given employees until Thursday evening to commit to “very rigorous” work or else leave the company.

In the future, Musk said, “We will need to be incredibly hardcore to construct a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in a more competitive market. “This will entail putting in long hours of intense work. The only acceptable performance will be extraordinary performance.

Musk continues in the message by outlining how Twitter will be “far more engineering-driven” before giving the crew a deadline. The message asks personnel to click “yes” on what looks to be an online form if they are certain they want to participate in the new Twitter.

Any employee who has not done so by Thursday at 5 p.m. ET will receive three months’ severance pay, according to Musk. The message was initially reported by The Washington Post.

The email, with the subject line “A fork in the road,” was sent at a time when Musk and Twitter staff have been at odds both publicly and privately about his management style for the firm. Additionally, it follows Musk’s ouster of Twitter’s senior executives, the dissolution of the board of directors, and the reduction of about half the workforce, which included key positions in the curation, wellness, public policy, and other departments.

While waiting for the platform to change, Musk has set high goals for himself and his team to meet in an effort to boost the business’s bottom line as soon as possible. Musk is also said to have given unclear instructions to staff members, such as asking them to print out numerous pages of recently created code before directing them to shred it.

At least one Twitter employee also posted a tweet about dozing asleep at work. Musk has admitted in the past that he has occasionally worked up to 120 hours a week and slept on the floor at a Tesla facility.

Employees at Twitter have resisted Musk and expressed worry. In one case, workers gave Musk and his team a memo earlier this month outlining their worries regarding his then-proposed plan to introduce a system where customers may pay to acquire a verification checkmark. Many of the advised precautions were not implemented when Musk released the system, which led to some of the employees’ fears being rapidly realised. Just two days after its debut, Twitter halted the system’s deployment. He announced on Tuesday that he expects to resume it later this month.

In the memo, Musk said, “Thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful, whatever decision you make.