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Bloomberg reports that the first slide of a presentation at a Twitter staff meeting yesterday asked a question that is likely on the minds of many employees following Tesla boss Elon Musk’s move on the micro-blogging platform: “Why Bother?” Twitter product vice president Jay Sullivan told employees that they have a responsibility to each other, and to a product used by hundreds of millions of people – even though the company’s putative owner is reportedly planning big changes. Musk, who has agreed to take Twitter private in a $44bn deal, has told potential investors he could return the social media company to public ownership after just a few years, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources.

Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce: Supporting Early and Later Careers for Engagement and Retention

Despite heavy investments in Early Careers programmes, companies lose over a quarter of graduates within the first 3 years of their employment. Meanwhile, with 85% of baby boomers planning to continue to work into their 70s and even 80s, businesses are challenged with managing differing needs and expectations of those in both early and later careers, in order to retain talent and maintain productivity. Join Right Management experts Sarah Hernon and Pedro Venus at 2pm on 10th May, as we explore the key workforce challenges associated with those in early and later careers, and offer practical tips on how your business can support them.

HR tech expert Phil Strazzulla has announced a new job board focused on People Operations.  The site was launched because an emerging group of companies was identified that valued "HR"- but, “they usually don't call it HR and they thought about it in very different ways,” Strazzulla writes, noting that “The site is full of roles from top companies (Morning Brew, Kickstarter, Meta, etc) and really interesting job titles (Head of Future of Work, Chief People Officer, DIB Strategy Officer, etc).” Last month the site had over 100k page views. You can check out the PeopleOps job board here.

NPR correspondent David Gura tweets to report the news that Levi Strauss & Co is to reimburse travel expenses for its full- and part-time employees who need to travel to another state for health care services, including abortions. You can read the company’s statement in full here.

Former Google CHRO and Humu Co-founder Laszlo Bock posts on LinkedIn to bring attention to a New York Times article which contends that “hybrid is failing us.” “Commute time savings is being consumed by more meetings, and it's not clear if Big Tech is helping or hurting . . . but it's hard to argue that 250% more meetings is a good thing,” Bock writes.

Although the poster admits “I know this has been asked a million times,” a request to the subreddit for Human Resources asking correspondents to reveal their wage has been responded to by several hundred people.