Twitter Abruptly Closes Offices , As Wave of Employees Resign After Musk’s Ultimatum.
On Nov.
16, Elon Musk sent an email to employees asking them to commit to an "extremely hardcore" work ethic and put in "long hours at high intensity" or quit.
Staff had until 5:00 p.m.
EST on Nov.
17 to decide.
Musk took to Twitter a few hours after the deadline to make his feelings known.
But NBC News reports that on Nov.
18, hundreds of employees resigned.
Entire teams representing critical infrastructure are voluntarily departing the company, leaving the company at serious risk of being able to recover, Anonymous Twitter engineer, to CNBC.
We are skilled professionals with lots of options, so Elon has given us no reasons to stay and many to leave, Anonymous Twitter engineer, to CNBC.
NBC News reports that the resignations have prompted Twitter to close all of its offices until Nov.
21.
Musk has also reportedly asked some of the company's top engineers to reconsider resigning and stay with Twitter.
.
#RIPTwitter was trending following the resignations
