Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley reports news that Elon Musk is requiring all Twitter employees return to the office.

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AKIKO FUJITA: Dan, let's talk about Twitter now. I mean, those employees certainly under pressure last week on the back of those cuts that came. Now they're under pressure for a different reason, with Elon Musk essentially saying, you got to come back to the office.

DAN HOWLEY: Yeah, he-- he's had this, you know, anti-work from home kind of sentiment for a while. It started with Tesla, but now, you know, he's taking it to Twitter, which now he owns obviously. Twitter had a pretty laissez-faire attitude towards work from home. It was basically a work from anywhere. Jack Dorsey at one point had said that he wanted to work remotely from Africa for a few months, and then Twitter's board basically put the kibosh on that as did their shareholders saying, you need to be where we need you.

So the attitude there had been, you know, very much work from wherever you can get your work done. Elon Musk is saying, no, you have to be in the office minimum 40 hours a week. There's going to be some exceptions for certain circumstances, people that, you know, absolutely need to be somewhere else or just can't make it to the office for one reason or another. But, you know, it'll be interesting to see how Twitter's employees respond to this. You know, this is a slew of changes that we've seen coming from the platform-- just, you know, the layoffs, getting rid of half the employees there.

Now we have word that some of the heads of infrastructure security or IT are leaving. And then we have the problems with those check marks and the verifications. Now they're saying that any new accounts that are made before-- on or after November 9 can't sign up for the $8 a month blue check mark because people started making phony check marks or phony accounts with those check marks for everything from Nintendo to LeBron James.

In fact, there was one for Nintendo that had Super Mario giving everyone the middle finger for a while. And Nintendo, rightfully so, was angry about that. So how do you stop something like that? How do you make sure that no one's going to make an account that says Joe Biden and, you know, say something in the extreme? So there's a lot going on here with not just the company but the employees. And, you know, Elon Musk trying to get it under control with that Q&A yesterday. But I mean, it's just seemingly too much at this point.

AKIKO FUJITA: Yeah, Dan, you have to wonder how morale is at the company in light of all these changes. I know you're staying on top of it. Thanks so much for that.