I was never expecting 75% cuts. 50%, though? Oh, yeah.
Elon Musk plans to cut about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc or half of the company’s workforce in a bid to cut costs, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter… Bloomberg also reported that Musk intends to reverse the social media company’s existing work from anywhere policy and will require employees to work from office though some exceptions could be made.
That’s the thing that’s gonna cause heartache, agita, and the rampaging staggers, mind you. Elon Musk apparently does not like work-from-home, these days – and it seems he’s going to be treating his new acquisition the same as the old one. Gonna be interesting to see how that plays out*.
(H/T: Instapundit)
*I’m agnostic on work-from-home. It’s working out all right for my wife’s job, but I don’t think it’s a universal panacea (or disaster).
I turned in my futurist badge back during the ‘90s. I thought the emerging possibility of telework would remove the major purpose of cities, and they would fade away as people moved to less horrible places.
(Shrug)
Turns out there’s a status element involved.
“I live in the city and can do X, Y, and Z!”
“Do you ever actually do those things?”
“No. But I totally could. If and when I wanted to. And that’s important. Somehow.”
It’s weird. To the point where I’ve heard people being perversely proud of how corrupt their local government is.
So what’s most interesting to me about the telework phenomenon, is that it’s become a status symbol.
And how people whose jobs are really not suited for it, are going “from my cold dead hands” about giving it up. (Intellectually interesting, anyway. On a personal level it’s frustrating as hell.)
Elon Musk is a special kind of slave driver. Just because he works 80 hours a week, he expects you to work 40.