It’s no secret Twitter has modified dramatically since Elon Musk purchased the social media platform final October for $44 billion. Musk’s first transfer when he took over was to fireplace the corporate’s prime executives. He later axed round half of the corporate’s workers, and plenty of extra left on their very own. 

Twitter’s former head of product for the developer platform, who was fired inside days of Musk’s takeover, mentioned the corporate’s mission to make individuals’s lives higher had “gone to rubbish” for the reason that Tesla-founder took over.

Now, Twitter’s work tradition appears to be centered on lengthy hours, unhealthy espresso and eerily silent inner communications, in accordance with a brand new report from Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton at Platformer. 

After famously transferring beds into the constructing in order that workers may work longer hours by sleeping within the workplace, the beds now should be booked prematurely on weeknights, one other worker advised Platformer. 

And meals is not free. One worker mentioned that even the espresso appeared prefer it got here from the “absolute worst distributors.”

One other main shift has been Twitter’s Slack. The app, which was as soon as the cornerstone of the social media large’s tradition and a frequently-used mode of communication inside the firm, is now like a “ghost city,” an worker advised Platformer.

“Individuals don’t even chat about work issues anymore,” the worker mentioned. “Earlier than the transition, it was not unusual within the crew channel to speak about what all people did that weekend. There’s none of that anymore.” 

Within the early days of the takeover, some Twitter workers who have been crucial of Musk on an inner Slack channel have been fired from the corporate. There have been many different casualties amongst those that took to Twitter to air out their dissatisfaction. The “Chief Twit” even went as far as firing some workers through tweet whereas having a heated on-line change final November.

Musk has been on a mission to chop down on firm bills since he purchased the corporate by taking up huge quantities of debt. Twitter has already uncared for to pay months of lease for the workplace buildings, forcing the owner to sue Musk earlier this 12 months. A number of the firm’s former workers are additionally taking authorized motion in opposition to Musk and Twitter for what they are saying is their choice to again out of contractual obligations and never pay them the severance they have been promised. Musk additionally auctioned off workplace furnishings like chairs and occasional machines and the corporate’s signature chook signal statue. 

On Wednesday, Twitter skilled a main outage the place many customers have been having issue utilizing the social media platform. Due to so many employees departures, there have been no engineers left within the crew dealing with such points to repair the issue.