Source: WaPo
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As a deadline loomed for Twitter employees to sign a pledge to work extra hours or request severance, Elon Musk eased a return-to-the-office mandate he issued a week ago, telling employees Thursday they would be allowed to work remotely if their managers assert they are making “an excellent contribution.”
The revision came as several current and former Twitter employees said they were surprised by the large number of their colleagues who were opting for the severance package and worried about how soon it would affect Twitter’s service. The employees spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal company developments.
Recent departures have left multiple critical systems down to two, one or even zero engineers, according to a former employee who was familiar with the situation and spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
“I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," the former employee said. "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”
