Musk quits: Hundreds of employees quit Twitter in one night

After the hour passed, hundreds of workers began posting goodbye messages on the company’s Slack space. “I’m not going to push the button. My time ends with Twitter 1.0, I don’t want to be part of Twitter 2.0,” said one of the people who resigned, according to The Vergewho had access to the messages.

According to other details that employees told CNBC, Musk sent several emails to the workforce after the ultimatum. In one he mentioned that managers were required to meet with employees in person once a week and that managers could be fired if they allow workers who are not “exceptional” to work remotely.

After the mass exile, Musk was calm through his Twitter account where he wrote: “The best stay, so I’m not super worried.” However, an engineer said Musk has asked some top specialists to reconsider staying with the company.

“Entire teams representing critical infrastructure are voluntarily leaving the company, leaving it at serious risk of being able to recover,” one engineer told CNBC, also noting that some stayed behind solely because the company helped them get a US visa.