Elon Musk now has a new question for his employees in X amid pending promotion: 'Justify your eligibility'

The employees at X have been left concerned and worried about their future growth after the latest announcement made by owner Elon Musk.

A new rule has been introduced by Musk in which the staff is required to "justify" why they are eligible for stock options before getting their access.

This announcement was made following aninternal meeting in June where the employees were informed that there is a delay in promotions and that the company will implement a new evaluation process with “lighter-weight check-ins.”

According to a report published in The Verge, a new policy has been rolled out by the Tesla owner which is more of a “throwback” than “tech-forward”.

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Musk sent a late-night email to the employees in which he announced that the stock options at X will now be given on the basis of the impact an employee has made.

A one-page summary of their contributions will be made by the workers to get access to the stock options.

Elon Musk raises performance bar for employees

The new order was given by Musk after he gave a powerful message in 2022 in which he asked the team to put all their efforts into buildingTwitter2.0.

Musk made it clear that the employees need to work super hard and that too for a long time.

In that email, X owner wrote, “Only outstanding performance will be deemed acceptable,” and stressed that for this the employees will have to work for “long hours at high intensity.”

The latest announcement is another setback to the team which is already seeing a lot of resignations as employees are leaving the workplace after finding it challenging to work under the leadership of Musk.

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As X, which was earlier known as Twitter, continues to remain in turbulent waters, the employees are fearing a round of layoffs soon. Earlier, Musk had promised to give stock options to everyone, but now it appears that he has takena U-turn.

Musk's companies are seeing a lot of resignations and the sales of Tesla are on a decline.

After taking over Twitter (now X) in October 2022, Musk fired thousands of its employeeswhich reduced the workforce by a major margin.

(With inputs from agencies)