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Elon 'Back to the Office' Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands (gizmodo.com)

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The billionaire owner and CEO Linda Yaccarino dialed in from out of town, vaguely touting new features that will roll out in the coming months.

There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground. A year after Musk officially took over the platform, both he and recently installed X CEO Linda Yaccarino held a joint all-hands Thursday to address some of the changes at the company and suggested that X might be a new financial platform.

Neither Musk himself nor Yaccarino showed up, according to a report from Fortune Thursday. The two executives dialed in remotely from Austin and New York City, respectively, citing an anonymous source within the company. Musk and Yaccarino skipping out on an in-person appearance during the all-hands comes after the former demanded employees return to office 40 hours per week last November, according to Insider, in one of his first sweeping changes as owner.

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[-] Mathprogrammer1@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 year ago

No one wants to work for him. He's just holding visa workers hostage

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many of those are still the case now? When he first took over, that was absolutely huge deal, since it's extremely difficult to find another job as a visa worker. But it's not impossible and Twitter employees would have very strong resumes. It's been so long that I suspect many of those who wanted to leave could have found another company willing to sponsor by now.

There's definitely Musk fanboys in the company. There's no shortage of people, especially the "tech bro" type, who somehow still adore Musk.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I won't be surprised. Do you know of any news articles that confirm this?

[-] Mathprogrammer1@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While we don't have official numbers, we do have this

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-visas-cant-just-quit

Early in the Twitter takeover, Twitter employees were offered a severance package to quit. H1-B workers can't just leave because they need their job to stay in the country. We can thus speculate that most of the workers that did leave are US citizens which leaves Twitter with the H1-B workers

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