Elon Musk Says He’s Working ‘7 Days a Week’ After Taking Over Twitter

Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin, on Sept. 3, 2020. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Elon Musk has spoken about his grueling work schedule as the new owner of Twitter and admitted to having “too much” on his plate.

The billionaire businessman gave an insight into his workload during a session at the Business 20 conference in Indonesia on Monday. The conference is the official G-20 dialogue forum and is running alongside the G-20 summit in Bali this week.

When asked how he runs Tesla’s global operations, Musk said he does so “with great difficulty.”

“I have too much work on my plate, that’s for sure,” Musk said. “I’m really working the absolute most that I can work—from morning to night, seven days a week. This is not something I'd recommend, frankly.”

Musk’s comments came shortly after he declined an offer by the former CEO of T-Mobile, John Legere, to “run” Twitter.

Legere took to the social media platform on Nov. 13 where he suggested he should run the site so that Musk can “stop managing daily business, and ‘content moderation’ and then support product/technology.”

“I’m expensive but so is what you paid for Twitter (p.s. please be leadership example of how to tweet)” Legere wrote.

Musk responded with a simple “No” before later adding that “Twitter at its core is a software & servers company” and the “technology needs to evolve rapidly, which requires a technologist.”

Billionaire Musk, who also runs spaceflight company SpaceX and neurotechnology startup Neuralink, finalized his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter in October.

Twitter Workers File Lawsuits After Mass Layoffs

Twitter announced in a company email on Nov. 3 that it would start laying off staff members from its global workforce of 7,500 employees in an “effort to place Twitter on a healthy path” as the platform is losing over $4 million a day.

Musk has defended the move, and said on Twitter that, “Everyone [who] exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50 percent more than legally required.”

However, the company has since been sued by multiple staff members over an alleged violation of federal law, with workers claiming they were not given enough notice regarding the layoffs and failed to receive their severance benefits when Musk laid off Twitter’s staff.

That includes two months of severance pay, bonus plan compensation, cash convertible company stock, and health insurance coverage, according to court documents seen by The Epoch Times. Twitter later informed the former employees that they would now only receive one month’s base pay after their termination, the documents state.

Musk previously denied a report by The New York Times in October that he planned to lay off some Twitter employees before Nov. 1, when employees were scheduled to receive stock grants as part of their compensation.

Elsewhere, Musk also fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, as well as legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde after taking over the social media platform.

Earlier this month, Twitter employees were also ordered to return to the office after Musk banned remote work.