Elon Musk hired an ally to upgrade US Treasury Department It has hard reform reforms in the private sector of demoralized staff and caused fear of their jobs, according to various workers in their former employees in his technology company.
Tom Krause, Silicon Valley General Director of the last three years, in the last three years, the office term of office, regular performance ratings and weekly updates to Krauses directly, ex-employees abc News told – a kind of Muskuen reform of Musk’s main efficiency of Musk’s government It has begun to do within government agencies.
An employee of a former cloud software group said he was afraid of his fear that he could have hidden pregnancy, fearing the target of releases. A former director said that they had archived subordinated performance reviews, knowing that some employees can be victims of the next cutting cycle. Another former employee said he was avoiding a complaint in the company’s emails or messaging application that could jeopardize their work.
“Business internships are known in table rooms and golf clubs, and they are taking government”, the former designer of the high-level contents of the Cloud Software Group who retired in 2024, ABC news said.
Krause has entered a key position in the Treasury Department, overseeing a $ 5 trillion payment system, which sends money for millions for millions such as Medicare and Social Security programs. Agency website He says.
In the press releases, the agency said that the cruus is decades to maximize the integrity of the “management of balance sheets”.
No Krause did not answer a cloud software group to comment on ABC News.
‘Hatchet Man’
Several ABC staff praised Krauce as a smart business leader, and said one enjoyed the authority of the company. But most of them were asked that they are not identified because of concerns about reprisal.
“He escaped from the things that you thought as you were a valued worker and,” Oh, we start to eliminate jobs, “Roan said in Krause in his time.” They saw people with great expenditure. “
Cloud Software Group Company was created in 2022 through the acquisition of Citrix Software business, planned for $ 16.5 billion, followed by TIBCO software.
Krause, previously served as President of Broadcom based on Palo Alto, was appointed director of the new company.
In the month, in January 2023, the company cut 15% of his employee.
“The feeling was to reduce expenses and it was a male, now similar to what is happening in the government,” the former human resources employee said. “They all were on the edge.”
Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Musk attends Donald Trump at Washington’s Capitol Rotunda US 47. He swore as president on January 20, 2025.
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Some measures to reduce cloud software group costs below Krause were first reported American Prospect.
During the months of the arrival of Krauses, the company also asked the workers to return to the office, ex-employees said.
At the same time, the company closed some offices in an effort to reduce supervised costs, former employees told ABC news. Closter had left some workers close to the office, exempt from the requirement for the refund, the former employee said.
On the opening day, Trump signed an executive command to call the head of the federal agency to authorize the office work. Muskera protected this policy Wall Street JournalMandatory to return to work “We welcome the expectations that would bring a voluntary wave.”
‘The level of business discipline is much higher’
The cloud software team staff also lost.
David Morgan, a former customer support supplier of Cloud Software Group, said the company ended his quarter bonuses, which were $ 16,000 each year. Employees also stopped receiving “Thanks” Days, allocation of paid time, Morgan said.
“We were told at the time of hiring everything slowly,” Morgan said.
A veteran Air Force with a disability, Morgan said he received a day before he was made in January 2024 to make it in dismissal rounds, after ensuring that his position was safe.
In a message LinkedIn That month, Kraus said the company improved, but still changes in employees.
“Adding value to long-time customers of our customers is getting the discipline and responsibility of our customers, it has fruit. Kraus said.
“But the change often means difficult decisions,” he wrote. “We also have a variety of business areas that our plans bring additional procurement to support our goals, even less resources or a pragmatic look at these different resources we need.”
In LinkedIn, in a live message of Krause, Morgan wrote: “The challenge is to reconcile my dedication and commitment in a way that he lacked empathy.” Kraux does not seem to be answered by the revised dialogue by ABC News.
Other policies under Krause established employee performance ratings on a scale of three and three, the former employees said.
Ratings took the toll on the former director, said the company said the company said at least one more than one dependent actor. “I had to give a low score to a person, even though they thought they weren’t worth a low score,” they said. “It’s been unhappy.”
Valuation systems have been expanded as part of the Trump Administration’s final impulse to cut staff. Higher employees in the Department of Health and Human Services told them to classify thousands of employees in the period testing, 40%, as they do not think that the mission is not a critical mission Washington Post Report.
‘It’s very distressing’
Daniel Keum, Columbia University School of Business Management said among the cost initiatives of the Cloud Software group, and some federal agencies shows the use of Trump Administration tactics borrowed in the private sector.
“In technology, there is a mentality that you need to break things to improve things,” Keum said ABC news. “When transposed in federal agencies, the mindset becomes very dicet.”
ABC talked to news with the news staff showed shock or concern for the role of the treasurer made by Krause, although indifference and another voice indicate.
“It’s very worrying,” Roan said, Architect the design of the former cloud software group.
“It wouldn’t have anything to do with the Department of Treasure Treasure,” Morgan said.
On the contrary, the company’s first executive was applauded to the role of Krause’s chance to take the role of the treasure, referring to his financial akumen.
“I don’t think you can find a better person to swim in bad weeds (and) sitting in the building of the Treasury department,” people said.
In January, the cloud software team made the turn of other dismissals. In the same month, Kraus sent an email to all employees, asking them to send a message at the end of each week, “you told me what you did,” according to an e-mail revised by ABC News.
The approaches are the “most valuable companies in the world” are good practices about two entrepreneurs and great directors, “Krause wrote Musking Musking and Nvidia Ceo Jensen Huang.
In a last day e-mail, Krause said he intended to continue his employees in his time in his time in the Treasury, according to a copy of the ABC news review Cr.
“I’m honored to serve in our town,” Krause wrote. “Leave me clearly – as the General Manager of Cloud Software Group, I am committed to our company and white.”
