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Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Twitter Employees Ramps up Company’s Crisis

Sarah Cabral, senior scholar in business ethics, quoted by Forbes.

"Moral actions are those that do not violate an individual's ability to make free and rational choices. At first glance, Musk appears to be giving employees a choice, but it is one that is neither free nor rational,” Sarah Cabral, a senior scholar in business ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said via email.

“It is not free because it is coercive, and it is not rational because the terms are unclear. Employees only have 24 hours to decide their future and no meaningful sense of what the new 'hardcore' environment will actually require of them,” she pointed out.

Sarah Cabral, senior scholar in business ethics, quoted by Forbes.

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