Some weeks ago, Elon Musk announced that working from home was suspended indefinitely for employees still working at Twitter after their reorganization. In the following days, another email was sent out asking employees to commit to ‘Twitter 2.0’ with an ‘extremely hardcore environment’ and ‘high-intensity long working hours’.
Unsurprisingly not many people were as dedicated as before after these emails, and 75% of staff chose to leave instead of committing to his new culture.
In a world where we see working from home and remote working as far more common, we have all experienced the benefits, and cons, during a global pandemic. Some people have opted for a more flexible approach to work, with a higher emphasis on their personal lives and fitting work around this. Trends such as The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting were born during this period and change of mindset.
There’s also been a higher emphasis on secondary benefits from employers with examples like longer time off for new parents -not just mothers-, free access to mental healthcare (for example via OpenUp), flexible working hours, workations, and -last but not least- working remotely.
Elon Musk effectively losing 6000 of the 7000 employees in the span of a mere two weeks is proof that a healthy work environment and secondary compensation forms are not just a nice benefit but a hard requirement to find and keep good employees.
What do you see as the biggest takeaway we can learn from Twitter?
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