Letter called for SpaceX to make work culture more inclusive and ‘define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior’
and calling on executives at the startup to make the company’s work culture more inclusive, according to two people familiar with the matter.The New York Times reported on Thursday that
The newspaper said Shotwell’s email said employees involved with circulating the letter had been fired for making other staff feel “uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views”.The earlier open letter to SpaceX executives seen by Reuters had called Musk a “distraction and embarrassment” to the company he founded.
It added: “Hold all leadership equally accountable to making SpaceX a great place to work for everyone” and “define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior”.a $44bn bid for Twitter and has made clear his support of freer controls on speech on the site. Musk, also head of the electric automaker Tesla Inc, has been in the headlines and featured in late-night comedy monologues in recent months, including over his quest to take over Twitter, his criticism of Democrats and a reported allegation of sexual harassment, which Musk has denied in a Twitter post.
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