The Worst Midnight Email From the Boss, Ever

NYT OPINION: The Worst Midnight Email From the Boss, Ever
By Jessica Bennett
Section: Opinion
Source: New York Times
Published Date: November 23, 2022 at 02:00AM

Musk is pushing a prepandemic mind-set that some bosses may long for but many employees are determined never to go back to.

“Even before the pandemic, many white-collar Americans were starting to rethink their relationships to work,” jessicabennett writes. “‘Hustle culture’ was a catchy slogan, but was any of this really worth it?”

Musk is pushing a prepandemic mind-set that some bosses may long for but many employees are determined never to go back to.

to his remaining employees: From this point forward, Twitter was going to be “extremely hard core.” Were they ready to be hard core? They could select “yes” — or opt for three months of severance pay.To Mr. Musk, “hard core” meant “long hours at high intensity,” a workplace where only the most “exceptional performance” would be accepted and a culture in which midnight emails would be just fine. I’d wager that more than a few workaholics, bosses or otherwise, weren’t entirely turned off by the philosophy behind that statement, and yet it immediately conjured images of sweaty Wall Street bankers collapsing at their desks, Silicon Valley wunderkinds sleeping under theirs and the high-intensity, bro-boss cultures of companies like Uber and WeWork, with their

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