Twitter's offices are abruptly shutting down — even after Elon Musk declared an end to remote work at the company last week
Company officials told employees all buildings were being temporarily closed, effective immediately, and that their ability to renter with ID access was being suspended for the time being, two people familiar with the company's action told Insider. The offices are expected to reopen Monday.
A current employee noted the closing of offices is a dramatic move, but intended to"prevent physical sabotage while they sort out access revocations," according to a Slack message seen by Insider. The closure was first reported on Twitter by Zoe Schiffer of the Platformer newsletter. The closure came about an hour after Musk's 5 pm ET deadline for Twitter workers to officially sign on to his new"extremely hardcore" plans for the company. Less than 50% of the company's remaining staff of roughly 4,000 people signed up to work at"Twitter 2.
This is the second time offices have suddenly closed since Musk took over Twitter. The company closed offices and
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