--- title: "Elon Musk Locks Twitter Employees Out Office, Then Asks Them to Meet Him on the 10th Floor" description: "Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter is somehow going even worse than expected amid reports that he's locked employees out of the company's office buildings." date: "2022-11-18" modified: "2022-11-18" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-locks-twitter-office-meeting" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "social media" - "the digest" - "twitter" --- # Elon Musk Locks Twitter Employees Out Office, Then Asks Them to Meet Him on the 10th Floor ![Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter is somehow going even worse than expected amid reports that he's locked employees out of the company's office buildings.]() *MYKONOS, GREECE - JULY 16: Elon Musk seen on a speedboat in Mykonos, Greece. 16 July 2022. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images) \Image: Getty Images\* ## Worst Case Scenario Elon Musk's Twitter-buying experiment is somehow going even worse than expected, amid reports that he's locked employees out of the company's office buildings. As reported by [*Platformer*'s Zoë Schiffer](), an email sent to Twitter staff yesterday evening informed them out of the blue that they wouldn't be able to get into their offices for the rest of the week. "We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company," Schiffer [wrote](). "Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for." Then, the saga somehow got even stranger today when [Musk emailed staff]() asking them to come to the 10th floor of Twitter's headquarters — which, remember, they'd just been told they were locked out of — for a meeting on the 10th floor. ## Ultimatums All told, the aura of chaos surrounding Twitter since Musk's acquisition late last month has deepened to a comical degree. News of the office closure, you'll recall, comes not long after Musk issued an ultimatum to the staff who survived his first purge the company's employees, in which he said that if "tweeps" [didn't come into the office](), they would be effectively tendering their resignations. Just before the office closure announcement, Musk gave his new employees another apparent threat: that if they are not prepared "[to be extremely hardcore]()" and work long in-office hours, they can cut and run with three months severance. Unsurprisingly, many Twitter employees have chosen the latter — a move that some [described]() to *CNN*'s Darcy as a "mass exodus." And in the face of all this contradiction and whiplash, who could blame them? **More on Musk:** [*Panicked Elon Musk Reportedly Begging Engineers Not to Leave*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()