Usually a promise of stock grants or a new office is catnip to tech employees. But when the promise comes from Elon Musk, workers at his social media service have learned to be skeptical.
Staff at X, formerly known as Twitter, recently received what would normally be welcome news: Last week, Musk told them they'd get a new stock grant if they could prove in a memo that their recent work made them worthy of a reward. Meanwhile, earlier in August, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced the planned closure of the company’s longtime San Francisco headquarters, and that employees would have move to a smaller office well outside the city.
