> You are talking about the IT-people, right?
absolutely not.
> How much do they handle media questions, PR related to global IT security events?
You don't need thousand people for that and It's their job anyway!
Listen, I come from what the average American would call "a socialist" country, at least regarding the labour market and organization.
I understand the social part of employing more people than necessary, it's a kind of redistribution that many countries won't or can't do through proper taxation.
I also understand that sometimes it's about resilience, two of everything is better than single points of failure.
But, it's ironic that these observations come from the POV of an American company.
It's ironic that people are leaving Twitter because Musk is asking them to work hard, meaning they aren't actually doing it, according to his standards (he's a terrible boss, no doubt!), but also meaning that Twitter is probably doing so bad because they focused on the wrong thing, like Facebook with the meta fiasco.
The American dream is not about 28 days of paid vacation, maternity leave, life-work balance, it's about making as much money as you can in the fastest way possible.
In its original formulation In such a country the talents, energy and perseverance of a person ... have far greater opportunity to display than in monarchies
You want a better life balance, better working hours, less staying in the office and more paid time to raise your kids?
Come to Europe!
For much less money of course.
Because you can't have both.
So yeah, it might be easier to do something with 3 people than one, but most of the time too many people are enemy of the efficiency.
You know what took the most part of upgrading the log4j incident where I work?
Coordination between too many levels of hierarchy.
That is actually the worst part of working in large companies, that's what actually stifle innovation and paralyzes them.
Twitter was already doing bad, it's been doing bad for years.
I left Twitter (as a user) 5 years ago, because it was already terrible.
I'm no Musk fan at all, but at least he's making things clear: if that's the end result people are used to, we don't need that many people to achieve it, we simply need motivated people (by money).