now Elon Musk has told Twitter staff

that they must commit to working long

hours at high intensity or else leave

the company workers have been told that

they needed to click on a link by

Thursday evening if they want to be part

of the new Twitter as you put it well

let's go live in Glasgow now our

technology editor Zoe Clyman is there

quite a statement Zoe what has he got to

add I mean where's the incentive well

what we know is that Elon Musk is a

workaholic you know he says in his own

admission he works hundreds of hours he

is very very dedicated to his job he

said in a recent court

the case that he works all of the time and

he has very high expectations of his

the staff as well let's not forget that

after the lockdowns, he was one of the

first bosses to order his staff to get

back into the office at Tesla which is

his other company what's kind of

interesting I think that he might be

looking to China Here China has a

the working rule which is called 996 and

it's 9 A.M to 9 pm six days a

a week now it's not very popular as you

can probably imagine and it certainly

doesn't fly in the west but it is

an exciting work ethic and you know

China as we know has a very very

thriving Tech sector

um he's just he's expecting a lot he's

saying to people if you don't want to

come along for this ride we'll give you

three months severance pay this is your

moment to leave which is I suppose

giving people a reasonable way out but

it's a clear sign that working at

Twitter is going to be a very different

experience perhaps to what staff that

are still there might have been used to

under the previous regime yeah and I

suppose the staff may accept look that

we're losing money we've got to do

something about that but there could be

a lot of people are saying you know what

I'll take the money and I'm out of here

that would cost an awful lot of money

I think what we need to look at is what

happens next with the tech sector you

know as we see there's a lot of

layoffs going on there's a lot of

unsettled companies there's a lot of

people pulling in there pulling in their

belts at the moment and sort of saying

you know we need to lay off people there

needs to be less money but what you've

got to bear in mind Silicon Valley

is it a pool of talent it is a pool

of very very smart people and they're

not going to sit around doing nothing

for very long and I spoke to somebody

recently who lives there and has lived

there his whole life and he said the way

to look at it is to look at the coffee

shops are the coffee shops empty he says

no, they're not they're full of people

huddled talking and coming up with new ideas

you know we might now see a time of big

change with the tech Giants but we might

also, see a time of opportunity for

smaller newer startups to come along

Zoe um it's one of the great sagas of

the moment isn't it thanks very much

indeed for bringing this right up to

date Thursday deadline is not far away now. 


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