Twitter is under investigation in San Francisco for allegedly converting some rooms at its headquarters into dormitories for employees, without the relevant permits: according to San Francisco Chronicle From municipal records They won’t come Requests to convert parts of the company’s headquarters to residential uses. was the news Referred to Originally from the magazine Forbes Based on some testimonials from Twitter employees.
The conversion of the rooms into dormitories will be associated with the arrival of businessman Elon Musk as the new owner of the company, who, after dismissing almost half of the employees, would have asked the rest of the staff to devote themselves to work with great intensity. Musk himself appears to confirm the allegations, writing on Twitter: “So the City of San Francisco is attacking companies that provide beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl.” Along with the tweet, he posted an article discussing the possible poisoning of a newborn baby with fentanyl.
Reporter BBC James Clayton has released some pictures that show a room with unmade beds and another with a double bed behind a video conferencing screen. According to testimonies collected by Clayton, Musk himself regularly slept at Twitter’s headquarters.
New: The BBC has obtained images inside Twitter of rooms converted into bedrooms for staff to sleep in.
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