San Francisco, Nov 17 (TIWN) Bringing his Tesla way of work style to Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees ultimatum till Thursday that they have to perform "extremely hardcore" work or leave the micro-blogging platform.

Meanwhile, in about two weeks under Musk's leadership, Twitter has fired over 3,700 people, and a slew of high-ranking execs have resigned.

Musk has now also given an ultimatum to Twitter employees to do "extremely hardcore" work or leave, TechCrunch reported. According to a report from The Washington Post, Musk sent a late-night email offering the remaining Twitter employees a choice: they can either resign and receive three months severance pay, or they can commit to a "hardcore" work environment.

Twitter employees have until 5 pm Eastern time on Thursday to make up their minds.

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"Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore," the letter reads. "This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade."

For the unversed, Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022.