Certain communications run like clockwork: Parents like to call their adult children early on Sunday mornings, and the CEO of Twitter likes to email his employees in the middle of the night. Elon Musk sent his return-to-office iteration of "u up?” to the remaining Twitter workers early Wednesday.
An email declaring that the “office is not optional” landed in Twitter employees’ inbox around 2:30 a.m., according to Platformer managing editor Zoë Schiffer. In the email, Musk also complained about the San Francisco office being half empty the day before. Of course, the emptiness might be Musk’s own doing—since becoming CEO, he's issued several rounds of layoffs.
