Elon Musk uses Twitter poll to decide if he should stay boss

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Elon Musk has asked users of Twitter to vote via a poll on whether or not he should stay the CEO of the popular social media platform.

The tweet read:  “Should I step down as head… I will abide by the results.”

So far, more than 16 million people have voted in his poll. And, as it stands, 57.5 percent of people have voted ‘Yes’.

In a later Tweet, Mr Musk wrote “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”

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He also wrote: “Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it.”

This follows Mr Musk’s turbulent time as CEO of Twitter since he took control in October following a $44nb deal.

Since then, Mr Musk has made many changes to the company, including making mass-scale redundancies, as well as ending remote working for his employees.

His actions have resulted in wide-scale criticism, with hate comments even being projected onto Twitter’s San Francisco HQ.

Amelia Brand is the Editor for HRreview, and host of the HR in Review podcast series. With a Master’s degree in Legal and Political Theory, her particular interests within HR include employment law, DE&I, and wellbeing within the workplace. Prior to working with HRreview, Amelia was Sub-Editor of a magazine, and Editor of the Environmental Justice Project at University College London, writing and overseeing articles into UCL’s weekly newsletter. Her previous academic work has focused on philosophy, politics and law, with a special focus on how artificial intelligence will feature in the future.

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