Workers were notified in a message received by the BBC that the offices would reopen on Monday, November 21.
It did not state why it was moving.
The statement comes as there are rumors that several employees were leaving after the new owner, Elon Musk, told them to commit to “long hours at high intensity” or quit.
The message wrote:
“Effective immediately, we are temporarily closing our office buildings and all badge access will be suspended. Offices will reopen on Monday, November 21st.
Thank you for your flexibility. Please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.”
See message below:
According to sources, Mr. Musk told Twitter employees last week that they would “need to be extremely hardcore” or commit to working long hours or leave the company.
The company’s new owner advised employees to accept the pledge in an email if they wanted to continue, according to the Washington Post.
Mr. Musk stated that those who didn’t sign up by Thursday, November 17 would receive three months’ worth of severance pay.
The corporation said earlier this month that it will be laying off almost 50% of its workers.
The news that Twitter had temporarily closed its offices today coincided with indications that several employees had already left in protest at Mr. Musk’s new contract terms.
To announce their departure from the company, employees have begun tweeting using the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked and a saluting emoji.
There will probably be less than 2,000 individuals remaining after the dust settles today, a former Twitter employee who chose to remain anonymous told the BBC.
They also mentioned that their entire team had been fired.
“The manager of that team, his manager was terminated. And then that manager’s manager was terminated. The person above that was one of the execs terminated on the first day. So there’s nobody left in that chain of command.”
Despite the chaos inside the business, Mr. Musk tweeted on Friday:
“And… we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol”.
Satirist Frank Lesser replied: “‘Rome has never been this brightly lit at night!’ – Nero” – a reference to the Roman emperor who is reputed to have fiddled while Rome burnt.
Around 7,500 people worked for Twitter before Elon Musk took over. Thousands of contract workers were also reportedly hired by the company, the most of whom are said to have been let go.
Another person claimed that despite being ready to put in long hours, they had quit their job.
“I didn’t want to work for someone who threatened us over email multiple times about only ‘exceptional tweeps should work here’ when I was already working 60-70 hours weekly,” they said.
The richest man in the world acquired Twitter last month in a $44 billion (£37 billion) deal, becoming the company’s CEO in the process.
In response to a query on worries that Twitter was set to shut down after the notification about the closure of Twitter’s offices was sent, Mr. Musk tweeted: “The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried”.
He tweeted a meme of a gravestone bearing the Twitter logo in addition to a skull and crossbones emoji.
