News JVTech From now on, Elon Musk wants Twitter employees to sleep in the office!
Published on 08/12/2022 at 17:05
Always more extreme in his management methods, Elon Musk has just installed dormitories in the offices of Twitter. The objective: to encourage employees to spend as much time as possible within the company.
Elon Musk warned Twitter employees who wanted to remain in post after the takeover of the company: to raise the bar and allow the social network to get its head above water, particularly from a financial point of view, you will have to work hard, very hard. At the beginning of November, we learned that the new boss of the platform intended to impose 84-hour weeks on his teams, which amounts to working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
It is not clear what is happening today in the various Twitter offices still open in the United States. What we do know, however, is that telework is no longer relevant within this company: just like at Tesla, SpaceX and other firms owned by Elon Musk, employees are required to be present within the premises and, ideally, to remain there as long as possible.
Twitter: dormitories for sleeping in offices
As if imposing extended hours and a crazy work pace on its employees were not enough, Elon Musk decided to go even further. The media Forbes reveals this week that the billionaire has equipped the headquarters of Twitter, based in San Francisco, with several dormitories. The newspaper explains that it had access to photos showing an office converted into a bedroom with everything you need to spend the night there, queen size bed and bedside tables included. The initiative would include between 4 and 8 rooms per floor.
Forbes adds thatno concrete communication would have been made by the management from Twitter: “There was no discussion. Overnight, the beds appeared like this, ”say witnesses to the situation. Elon Musk would simply have liked to reward, in his own way, his most relentless employees who work so much that they already sleep at the office. Some employees, on condition of anonymity, believe that it is “a tacit sign of disrespect”.
Others say they visited some rooms and found that there was “garbage in the bins”, suggesting that some rooms were probably already in use. “Some people work very late, so that makes sense to some extent.”
An open investigation concerning the premises of Twitter
According to testimonies, rooms repurposed as bedrooms in Twitter headquarters were former offices left vacant by employees who had been laid off or resigned. However, this does not mean that it is possible to rearrange the offices of a company as desiredeven when your name is Elon Musk.
The San Francisco Building Inspection Department announced the opening of an investigation, in order to determine if the way in which the premises of Twitter since the takeover of the company is in compliance with the law.
BREAKING: San Francisco building inspectors are launching an investigation into reports Twitter has converted several office rooms at its headquarters into sleeping quarters for employees. ‘We need to make sure the building is being used as intended’ @sfdbi rep tells @KQEDnews
— Ted Goldberg (@TedrickG) December 6, 2022
A situation to which Elon Musk immediately responded on Twitter, accusing the city’s mayor of “going after businesses that provide beds for its tired employees” rather than protecting San Francisco’s children from the drug trade. It is a new standoff that is announced for the billionaire…
