How ‘scary’ is Elon Musk’s boss: Converted all the meeting rooms at Twitter headquarters into … bedrooms, forcing employees to work day and night

Yesterday, Elon Musk criticized San Francisco mayor London Breed following an article that said the city was investigating Twitter for setting up bedrooms in the office. Elon Musk thinks the company is being unfairly attacked just for “providing beds for tired employees”.

In recent weeks, Twitter has turned a series of meeting rooms in the office into homemade bedrooms, equipped with furniture such as bedside tables and armchairs. In fact, Twitter doesn’t need too many meeting rooms right now because it has laid off thousands of employees after Elon Musk completed a $44 billion acquisition at the end of October.

A spokesman for the San Francisco Department of Building Inspectors said that they will conduct a site inspection of Twitter headquarters following complaints about the appearance of beds, which may be in violation of building codes.

In a tweet, Musk expressed anger at the news that Twitter could be investigated. In response, Ms. Breed said: “It’s important to keep public spaces safe.”

Before the successful takeover of Twitter, Musk also raised an extremely mythical idea: Turn Twitter’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco into a home for the homeless. The tweet was later deleted, but is still considered “excessive sarcasm” for the city of San Francisco, which is already grappling with a homelessness crisis. Accordingly, Musk wants to turn the headquarters building into a place for homeless people, and that “anyway, this place is empty and no one lives”.

Of course, Musk’s ambitions are hard to come by. According to Bloomberg, there is no sign that Twitter will convert its office into a home for the homeless and if it wanted to, the social networking site wouldn’t be able to. In the past, converting vacant offices into housing units in major cities like San Francisco was seen as an effective way to solve supply bottlenecks as well as repurpose unused malls.

According to Dan Sider, director of the San Francisco Department of Planning, Twitter can completely convert its office into permanent affordable housing from a management perspective, but the process will be relatively complicated. Meanwhile, housing the homeless, he said, was “quite simple”.

However, considering the political or financial motivation, it is difficult for Twitter to implement this proposal, especially when the leader of the famous social networking site begins to reuse the headquarters building for other purposes. job purpose.

Back to the bed story at Twitter headquarters, right in the early days of taking over the CEO position, Musk did not hesitate to share his desire not only for employees to actively work long hours and sleep in the office when needed, but he also said he asked many employees at Tesla and the Boring company to help him run Twitter. A source said, converting the meeting room into a bedroom mentioned above may be to serve the above purpose of Musk.

As for Musk himself, sleeping in the office is not strange. Tesla CEO slept under his desk and camped in the office at Tesla’s Fremont factory for days during the period when the electric car company fell into crisis in 2018. Accordingly, Elon Musk slept on a chair or under a desk in his room. work with a white pillow for 3 days.

Source: Bloomberg