Elon Musk: Twitter closes offices until next week

Twitter has told employees that each of the company's bureau buildings volition beryllium temporarily closed, effectual immediately.

In a connection seen by the BBC, workers were told that the offices would reopen connected Monday 21 November.

It did not fixed a crushed for the move.

The announcement comes amid reports that ample numbers of unit were quitting aft caller proprietor Elon Musk called connected them to motion up for "long hours astatine precocious intensity" oregon leave.

The connection went connected to say: "Please proceed to comply with institution argumentation by refraining from discussing confidential institution accusation connected societal media, with the property oregon elsewhere."

Twitter did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from the BBC.

This week Mr Musk told Twitter unit that they had to perpetrate to moving "long hours astatine precocious intensity" oregon other permission the company, according to reports.

In an email to staff, the firm's caller proprietor said workers should hold to the pledge if they wanted to stay, the Washington Post reported.

Those who did not motion up by Thursday would beryllium fixed 3 months' severance pay, Mr Musk said.

One Twitter idiosyncratic who wished to stay anonymous told the BBC that they had resigned adjacent though they had been prepared to instrumentality connected the accrued workload demanded by Mr Musk.

"I didn't privation to enactment for idiosyncratic who threatened america implicit email aggregate times astir lone 'exceptional tweeps should enactment here' erstwhile I was already moving 60-70 hours weekly," they said.