Mr. Musk’s staff has additionally deliberated the deserves of not paying severance to the 1000’s of people that have left the corporate since he took over, when there have been about 7,500 full-time workers. Whereas Mr. Musk and his advisers had beforehand thought of forgoing any severance when discussing cuts in late October, the corporate in the end determined that U.S.-based workers could be given a minimum of two months of pay and one month of severance pay in order that the corporate could be compliant with federal and state labor legal guidelines.
Mr. Musk’s staff is now reconsidering whether or not it ought to pay a few of these months, in accordance with two folks accustomed to the discussions, or simply face lawsuits from disgruntled former workers. Many former workers nonetheless haven’t obtained any paperwork formalizing their separation from Twitter, 5 folks stated. Mr. Musk has already refused to pay thousands and thousands of {dollars} in exit packages to executives he claims had been terminated “for trigger.”
As Twitter has downsized, Mr. Musk’s staff has been hoping to renegotiate the phrases of lease agreements, two folks accustomed to the dialogue stated. The corporate has obtained complaints from actual property funding and administration corporations together with Shorenstein, which owns the San Francisco buildings that Twitter occupies.
A spokesman for Shorenstein declined to remark.
In different money-saving strikes, Twitter has laid off its kitchen workers and begun to listing workplace provides, industrial-grade kitchen tools and electronics from its San Francisco workplace for public sale.
Mr. Musk additionally continues to chop workers and leaders, together with Nelson Abramson, Twitter’s international head of infrastructure, and Alan Rosa, the worldwide data know-how head and vice chairman of data safety, in accordance with 4 folks accustomed to the strikes.
On Sunday night time, Mr. Musk despatched two emails to Twitter’s workers with recommendation about find out how to work for him that he had beforehand shared with SpaceX and Tesla workers. One message targeted on first rules pondering, a worldview based mostly on the teachings of Aristotle to cut back assumptions to fundamental axioms, which Mr. Musk credited with serving to him make tough selections. The opposite advocated towards office hierarchies.
On Monday, Twitter notified members of its belief and security council, an advisory group fashioned in 2016, that it will dissolve instantly. The council was created to information Twitter via difficult security issues and content material moderation points, and was made up of organizations targeted on civil rights and little one security.