Teams G & H: Submit by midnight Friday.... Group Submission (one post per group!). Research 2 challenges that companies or bosses have found when implementing change (be sure to include specific company examples). Your group response should be 400-500 words in length and posted by Creating a Thread with your group letter in the subject line such as "Group X Research and Report Back." Teams A, B, C, D, E, F: Submit by midnight Tuesday.... Individual Submission. Group H : Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter last year was one of the world's most famous and contentious company buyouts. In October 2022, Musk stepped in as CEO and immediately began implementing change. He fired over 50% of the existing employees, dissolved the board of directors, changed longstanding policies, and relaunched the Twitter Blue subscription, in addition to other shifts for the company's direction. Twitter faced several organizational and individual challenges concerning the changes. The company struggled on an individual level; when Musk asked the remaining workers to check yes on "long hours at high intensity," the request was declined by many employees and resulted in the departure of as many as 1200 employees. The company also suffered at an organizational level when several companies stopped advertising on the platform following the firing of various analysts, activists, and authorities, causing revenue through ads to decrease. Technical issues began to arise every few weeks. On one occasion, visibility issues were reported by many users. They claimed their tweets were not getting views, and their feed was empty. The constant organizational changes could be an attributing factor. The constant job-cutting and policy changes may decrease employee loyalty and motivation and increase technical errors and mistakes. Just last month, Musk laid off an additional 10% of his remaining employees.Musk's and Twitter's challenges are not yet over, and different issues related to this major change in the company continue to arise. Apple is reportedly struggling to meet the new expectations of its employees in the post-COVID-19 era. Retail store employees use Android devices to unionize and push for wage increases. The company's reluctance to fully embrace remote work and requests for spontaneous meetings reflects a dogmatic approach to management. The article suggests that managers need to evolve to support new workplace models. Additionally, Apple's system of giving bonuses to "valued" employees may have ignored some transient elements that create a pleasing workplace. The struggles Apple faces now showcase both individual and organizational resistance to change, as Apple employees and management demonstrated. Individual resistance to change is evident in the desires of Apple employees for more autonomy and flexibility in the new world of work. Employees have been vocal about wanting to work from home more frequently, but management prefers in-person meetings to identify and resolv.