What does Elon Musk teach us about a healthy work environment?

Elon Musk is one of the most admired billionaires in the world. Musk's admirers often… don't work for him. Of course, if you say that Twitter's loyal users are also workers who earn money for this billionaire, including many Musk fans, the above statement is not entirely true. But in this article, I want to talk about the people who directly work for him.

Half of Twitter's employees globally fired by Musk are definitely not Musk fans. If they loved him so much, this “single director” would not have sued the old company collectively for violating federal and San Francisco law by mass firing without warning.

A vague common purpose?

It can be said that the most important thing that the Twitter owner needs to do right now is to save the company's revenue, thereby saving his wallet after buying the platform at a huge price. But as a social network with the task of connecting people, and capable of dividing the whole society, "Lord Twit" is caught between the problem of money and social responsibility.

Is it possible that what creates a healthy working environment, besides maintaining the labor rights of employees, is also creating a common belief that all aim for? If so, every business that maintains a salaried system will either go into decline or will have to constantly rotate new hires, because this belief is ever-changing.

Some businesses around the world are moving towards a model of co-ownership among employees. That model, known as Employee Ownership, is made possible through a program that allows employees to own the same number of shares in the business. Thus, the smallest cog in the process also comes to the company because its existence directly affects the interests and social beliefs of employees.

The Employee-Owner model helps to avoid silent layoffs, silent dismissals, ensures the rights of employees, and limits unnecessary conflicts between senior and low-level positions when the enterprise divides unequal distribution of power. .

In short, given what has happened in history, the existence of the company, or even the state, cannot depend on one or a few wealthy and elite individuals. The post-Covid corporate economic trend seems to place more responsibility in the hands of authoritarian individuals. We see the decline of Facebook, soon Twitter, and many more Twitters to come.