What Elon Musk Can Learn from Patrick Collinson

Twitter and Stripe both laid off employees last week. The contrast between how these layoffs were conducted is striking. One CEO went to great lengths to ensure the employees remaining post-layoff would feel the least amount of survivor’s guilt and be ready to move forward. The other didn’t seem to care how survivors felt. Neville and Shel examine these approaches and some of the other fallout from Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in this short midweek episode of “For Immediate Release.” The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, November 21. We host a Communicators Zoom Chat each Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials needed to participate, contact Shel or Neville directly, request the credentials in our Facebook group, or email fircomments@gmail.com. Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music. You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. Neville’s “asides” blog, Outbox, is also available. Links from this report: Sharon McIntosh on LinkedIn: CEO Patrick Collison’s email to Stripe employees Twitter’s case study of how not to lay people off Twitter UK staff get deadline over cuts consultation Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back Turmoil engulfs a Twitter in transition (Neville’s blog post) Elon Musk’s response to fake verified Elon Twitter accounts: a new permanent ban policy for impersonation