Elon Musk turned some Twitter offices into bedrooms – take a look
Musk was critical of the investigation. “So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?” he said on Twitter with a link to an article detailing an account from a father who says his baby overdosed on fentanyl after being exposed to the drug at a city playground.
Elon Musk accused of turning Twitter offices into bedrooms
Twitter is under investigation by city officials in San Francisco following a complaint that the company allegedly converted rooms in its headquarters to sleeping quarters, an inquiry that has drawn scorn from Elon Musk.
As of Monday, the office has “modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors” with four to eight beds a floor, employees told Forbes. The changes appear to be part of Musk’s plan for “hardcore Twitter” in which he’s demanded workers dedicate “long hours at high intensity” after he fired nearly half the company’s workforce.
But the San Francisco Chronicle reported the company has not applied for any permits to use portions of the building for residential purposes.
The San Francisco department of building inspection confirmed to several media outlets that it is investigating the matter after receiving a complaint and that it plans to inspect the company’s headquarters.
The department has contacted the building representatives to conduct an inspection and if the headquarters are no longer up to building code, it will issue a notice of violation. They city treats all property complaints and owners the same, Hannan said.
“No one is above the law,” Hannan said.
Musk was critical of the investigation. “So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?” he said on Twitter with a link to an article detailing an account from a father who says his baby overdosed on fentanyl after being exposed to the drug at a city playground.
So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?https://t.co/M7QJWP7u0N
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 6, 2022
No city or police officials have confirmed whether or not the child’s emergency was the result of fentanyl exposure.
Some workers have already reported sleeping in company headquarters. Twitter’s director of product management, Esther Crawford, shared a photo last month of her sleeping in the office with an eye mask and sleeping bag. “When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork,” Crawford wrote on Twitter.
When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD
— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
Employees told Forbes that no announcement was made about the new beds but that they believed they were there so workers could stay in the office overnight.
“It’s not a good look,” they said. “It’s yet another unspoken sign of disrespect. There is no discussion. Just like, beds showed up.”
Elon Musk turned some Twitter offices into bedrooms – take a look
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- Elon Musk turned some office space at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters into sleeping quarters.
- It followed his “hardcore” ultimatum, asking employees to commit to “long hours at high intensity.”
- Take a look inside some of the sleeping quarters, including what appears to be Musk’s bedroom.
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Elon Musk has turned some office space in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters into bedrooms and is reportedly having one made for himself as well.
That attracted the attention of the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, which told Insider it was investigating the reports.
Musk was not impressed, tweeting: “So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?”
His decision to have some employees sleep at the office comes after one worker tweeted a picture of his boss in a sleeping bag and mask on Twitter’s office floor early last month, shortly after Musk took control.
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