'Performance Awards' email after weekend layoffs

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: February 27, 2023 (Monday Feb. 27, 2023, 10:48 a.m. per The Verge (via APH Networks))
To:: Remaining Twitter employees
Subject:: Performance Awards

Partial text. Only these passages were published; [...] marks a gap.

This past week, we completed a difficult organizational overhaul focused on improving future execution, using as much feedback as we could gather from the entire company. Those who remain are highly regarded by those around them.

About this email

After another round of weekend layoffs, Musk tells remaining staff the company completed a difficult organizational overhaul and that they will receive very significant stock and performance awards on March 24.

Notes

First reported by The Verge (blocked for retrieval in this session). The remainder, promising 'very significant' stock and performance awards on March 24, is only paraphrased or partially quoted in retrievable sources.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

Twitter/X, company-wide memo. Tags: layoffs, compensation, stock-awards, reorganization

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