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X员工对马斯克的最新承诺持怀疑态度

KALI HAYS
2024-09-01

在被马斯克接手后的两年间,X公司做出过许多承诺,但通常无法遵守承诺,或者在执行过程中出现问题。

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X的老板埃隆·马斯克。图片来源:MARC PIASECKI—GETTY IMAGES

对于科技公司的员工而言,发放股票奖励或搬到新办公室的承诺,就像猫薄荷对猫一样有吸引力。但当这些承诺来自埃隆·马斯克时,在他的社交媒体公司工作的员工,已经学会了持怀疑态度。

X(原Twitter)的员工最近收到了一条在正常情况下受到欢迎的好消息:上周,马斯克告诉员工,如果他们能在备忘录中证明他们最近的工作值得获得奖励,他们将获得新的股票奖励。与此同时,8月早些时候,该公司CEO琳达·雅卡里诺宣布计划关闭公司长期以来使用的旧金山总部,员工将搬到市郊规模更小的办公室。

许多X员工对这两件事的反应都是不以为然。在被马斯克接手后的两年间,公司做出过许多承诺,但通常无法遵守承诺,或者在执行过程中出现问题。

自从三周前办公室搬迁的消息传出后,员工一直没有得到更多详细信息。由于缺少官方信息,员工只能依靠传闻来获取消息——最新的传闻是,他们必须在8月底前搬出办公室,也就是只有不到一周时间。但根本没有人开始收拾办公室里剩下的物品。在被马斯克收购之后,该公司在两年内已经经历了数千人的裁员和辞职。

一位X的现任员工对《财富》杂志表示:“我们没有收到与这次搬家有关的任何消息。”在8月6日召开的全体员工大会上,员工以为能了解到有关办公室关闭的更多信息。但雅卡里诺在讲话中主要谈论了对一家广告咨询机构的新诉讼,以及将日益萎缩的广告业务集中在中小企业(SME)身上的内部计划。

本文基于两位现任员工和一位仍与现任员工保持联系的前员工的叙述。由于担心因公开发言而被解雇,他们均要求匿名。

X并未回复请求置评的电子邮件。

雅卡里诺在唯一一封关于办公室关闭的邮件中,对X的旧金山员工表示,他们将有两个去向:一是搬到加州帕洛阿尔托,距离旧金山一小时车程;另一个办公地点则位于稍远一些的圣何塞。但没有人告诉员工,他们将被如何安排。

X的CEO还提到了可能的“交通选择”,显然她所说的是其他大型科技公司为员工提供的那种通勤班车。消息人士称,由于没有其他细节,员工只能猜测他们在搬家后该如何上班。

对于承诺的股票奖励,这位消息人士用表示哭笑不得的“lol”,回应了《财富》杂志的问题。近一年来,X的员工一直被要求每周或每月向上司发送电子邮件,说明自己的工作情况和对X产生的积极影响。两位消息人士称,有些管理者不愿意执行这条规则,但有些却严格执行。其中一位消息人士补充说:“没有人知道这些邮件的去向。”

一些员工对于公司能否兑现股票奖励持怀疑态度。五个月前,在年度绩效评估周期结束后,X的员工被告知他们将获得额外股票奖励。但两位现任员工表示,这些奖励从未兑现过。

马斯克已经养成了不向与X有关的个人和实体支付款项的习惯。有数千名普通员工被裁员或解雇,却没有领到公司承诺的离职补偿金,后来他们发起了集体仲裁。除此之外,有多位前Twitter高管在马斯克收购公司后提起诉讼,要求支付高额离职补偿金,但马斯克已经拒绝支付。一位前董事会成员也起诉了马斯克,还有多位供应商和土地所有者指控马斯克未支付欠款。

由于对最近的股票奖励的质疑,一些员工对于再写一份备忘录叙述自己对公司的贡献毫无兴趣。马斯克的邮件没有具体说明这是新的奖励计划,还是只是重复了人们期待已久的额外奖励。

无论如何,许多员工并不认为股票奖励会是一笔意外之财。一位员工表示,考虑到X面临的业务困境(主要原因是广告收入大幅减少),限制股奖励“基本上毫无价值”。

在马斯克入主X之后,X仅向有限数量的员工发行过一次限制股。那次发行的时间比承诺时间晚了一年左右,而且在发行时,对X的估值比马斯克收购它时已经缩水了约60%。这些股票受到许多限制。员工必须持有满一年,然后只能出售给获得批准的外部投资者。一位消息人士称,由于X的业务困境和投资者对购买X股票的兴趣有限,这些股票没有太大价值。

虽然X员工去年收到的一份内部指南,说明了在内部出售限制股单位或者公司再次上市时这些股票的价值,但这两种情况似乎都不太可能发生。在马斯克收购Twitter初期,他曾偶尔谈到过公司重新上市的话题。但公司员工表示,他已经几个月没有谈过这个话题。尽管距离初始兑现期只有几周时间,但公司内部没有任何计划出售限制股单位的消息传出。

一位员工表示:“目前没有任何流动性事件的迹象。”(财富中文网)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

对于科技公司的员工而言,发放股票奖励或搬到新办公室的承诺,就像猫薄荷对猫一样有吸引力。但当这些承诺来自埃隆·马斯克时,在他的社交媒体公司工作的员工,已经学会了持怀疑态度。

X(原Twitter)的员工最近收到了一条在正常情况下受到欢迎的好消息:上周,马斯克告诉员工,如果他们能在备忘录中证明他们最近的工作值得获得奖励,他们将获得新的股票奖励。与此同时,8月早些时候,该公司CEO琳达·雅卡里诺宣布计划关闭公司长期以来使用的旧金山总部,员工将搬到市郊规模更小的办公室。

许多X员工对这两件事的反应都是不以为然。在被马斯克接手后的两年间,公司做出过许多承诺,但通常无法遵守承诺,或者在执行过程中出现问题。

自从三周前办公室搬迁的消息传出后,员工一直没有得到更多详细信息。由于缺少官方信息,员工只能依靠传闻来获取消息——最新的传闻是,他们必须在8月底前搬出办公室,也就是只有不到一周时间。但根本没有人开始收拾办公室里剩下的物品。在被马斯克收购之后,该公司在两年内已经经历了数千人的裁员和辞职。

一位X的现任员工对《财富》杂志表示:”我们没有收到与这次搬家有关的任何消息。“在8月6日召开的全体员工大会上,员工以为能了解到有关办公室关闭的更多信息。但雅卡里诺在讲话中主要谈论了对一家广告咨询机构的新诉讼,以及将日益萎缩的广告业务集中在中小企业(SME)身上的内部计划。

本文基于两位现任员工和一位仍与现任员工保持联系的前员工的叙述。由于担心因公开发言而被解雇,他们均要求匿名。

X并未回复请求置评的电子邮件。

雅卡里诺在唯一一封关于办公室关闭的邮件中,对X的旧金山员工表示,他们将有两个去向:一是搬到加州帕洛阿尔托,距离旧金山一小时车程;另一个办公地点则位于稍远一些的圣何塞。但没有人告诉员工,他们将被如何安排。

X的CEO还提到了可能的“交通选择”,显然她所说的是其他大型科技公司为员工提供的那种通勤班车。消息人士称,由于没有其他细节,员工只能猜测他们在搬家后该如何上班。

对于承诺的股票奖励,这位消息人士用表示哭笑不得的“lol”,回应了《财富》杂志的问题。近一年来,X的员工一直被要求每周或每月向上司发送电子邮件,说明自己的工作情况和对X产生的积极影响。两位消息人士称,有些管理者不愿意执行这条规则,但有些却严格执行。其中一位消息人士补充说:“没有人知道这些邮件的去向。”

一些员工对于公司能否兑现股票奖励持怀疑态度。五个月前,在年度绩效评估周期结束后,X的员工被告知他们将获得额外股票奖励。但两位现任员工表示,这些奖励从未兑现过。

马斯克已经养成了不向与X有关的个人和实体支付款项的习惯。有数千名普通员工被裁员或解雇,却没有领到公司承诺的离职补偿金,后来他们发起了集体仲裁。除此之外,有多位前Twitter高管在马斯克收购公司后提起诉讼,要求支付高额离职补偿金,但马斯克已经拒绝支付。一位前董事会成员也起诉了马斯克,还有多位供应商和土地所有者指控马斯克未支付欠款。

由于对最近的股票奖励的质疑,一些员工对于再写一份备忘录叙述自己对公司的贡献毫无兴趣。马斯克的邮件没有具体说明这是新的奖励计划,还是只是重复了人们期待已久的额外奖励。

无论如何,许多员工并不认为股票奖励会是一笔意外之财。一位员工表示,考虑到X面临的业务困境(主要原因是广告收入大幅减少),限制股奖励“基本上毫无价值”。

在马斯克入主X之后,X仅向有限数量的员工发行过一次限制股。那次发行的时间比承诺时间晚了一年左右,而且在发行时,对X的估值比马斯克收购它时已经缩水了约60%。这些股票受到许多限制。员工必须持有满一年,然后只能出售给获得批准的外部投资者。一位消息人士称,由于X的业务困境和投资者对购买X股票的兴趣有限,这些股票没有太大价值。

虽然X员工去年收到的一份内部指南,说明了在内部出售限制股单位或者公司再次上市时这些股票的价值,但这两种情况似乎都不太可能发生。在马斯克收购Twitter初期,他曾偶尔谈到过公司重新上市的话题。但公司员工表示,他已经几个月没有谈过这个话题。尽管距离初始兑现期只有几周时间,但公司内部没有任何计划出售限制股单位的消息传出。

一位员工表示:“目前没有任何流动性事件的迹象。”(财富中文网)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

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.

In both cases, many X employees reacted with a shrug. Under two years of Musk’s ownership, the company has made a number of promises, but often failed to keep them or bumbled their execution.

Since news of the office move three weeks ago, staff have received no more details about it. In the absence of official information, workers have been left to trade in rumors—the latest of which is that they will be forced out of the office by the end of August, less than a week away. Yet no one has started packing the little that remains in the office, which has undergone a bloodbath of thousands of layoffs and resignations in the two years since Musk bought the company.

“We haven’t been told anything about the move,” one current staffer told Fortune. During an all-hands meeting on Aug. 6, staffers were expecting to receive more detail on the office closure. Instead, Yaccarino focused her remarks on a new lawsuit against an advertising advisory group and an internal plan to focus X’s shrinking ad revenue on “SMBs,” or small and medium size businesses.

This article is based on the accounts of two current staffers and one former staffer who is still in touch with current employees. They all demanded anonymity for fear that they would be fired for speaking out publicly.

X did not respond to emails seeking comment.

In her only email about the office closure, Yaccarino told X’s San Francisco staff they would be relocated to one of two offices, either an hour away in Palo Alto, Calif., or slightly further afield in San Jose. No one has been told which office they’re assigned to.

The CEO also mentioned possible “transportation options,” apparently a nod to commuter shuttles like those that several larger tech companies offer their employees. Given no additional details, staff has been left to wonder how they’ll get to work after the move, the source said.

When it comes to the promised stock award, that same staffer responded to Fortune‘s questions with a wry “lol.” For about a year now, X employees have been required to send weekly and monthly emails to their managers describing their work and positive impact on X. Some managers don’t bother enforcing the rule, both of the staffers said, but others do. “No one understood where those emails went,” one of the sources added.

Some staffers aren’t holding their breath that the stock grants will ever materialize. Five months ago, X employees were told after the annual performance review period concluded that they would receive additional stock grants. But those grants haven’t shown up, both of the current employees said.

Musk has made a habit of failing to pay people and entities associated with X. Beyond the thousands of rank-and-file employees who were laid off or fired without promised severance and subsequently pursued mass arbitration, several former Twitter executives laid off immediately after Musk’s acquisition of the company are suing Musk for their own large severance packages, which he has refused to pay. A former board member is suing, too, while several vendors and landlords have lodged their own lawsuits over Musk’s failure to pay what they claim to be owed.

Because of the doubts surrounding the latest stock offer, some employees aren’t enthusiastic about having to write another memo about their contribution to the company. Musk’s email did not specify whether the offer is actually a new one or just a rehash of the long-expected refresher grants.

Either way, many employees don’t consider stock grants to be a financial windfall. Given X’s business struggles, driven mainly by a huge drop-off in advertising revenue, the restricted stock units are “essentially worthless,” one of the staffers said.

Under Musk, X has only once issued restricted stock and only to a limited number of staffers. That grant came about a year after they were promised, and valued X at almost 60% less than what Musk paid for it. That stock came with restrictions. Employees must hold onto it for a year and then can only sell it to an approved group of outside investors. Due to X’s business struggles and limited investor appetite for them, the shares aren’t worth much, one source said.

Although X staffers last year received an internal guide laying out what would happen to their RSUs should an internal sale of their stock be set or the company go public again, neither seems likely. In the early days of the Twitter takeover, Musk spoke occasionally of taking the company public again. He has not done so for many months, staffers said. And there is no scheduled sale of RSUs coming up, despite an initial vesting cliff being just weeks away.

“There is no liquidity event in sight,” one staffer said.

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