Elon Musk turns Twitter into 'hotel' for staff

The BBC has been fixed photos of Twitter bureau abstraction that has been converted into bedrooms, which San Francisco authorities are probing arsenic a imaginable gathering codification violation.

One representation showed a country with a treble bed, including a wardrobe and slippers.

An ex-worker said caller Twitter brag Elon Musk has been staying astatine the office since helium bought the firm.

He past period emailed each Twitter unit saying they "will request to beryllium highly hardcore" to succeed.

San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection has confirmed it is investigating imaginable violations pursuing a complaint.

Mr Musk said the metropolis was attacking companies for providing beds to "tired employees".

In a now-deleted tweet, Mr Musk posted that helium would enactment and slumber successful the bureau "until the org is fixed".

The BBC has besides been fixed pictures of sofas astatine Twitter being utilized arsenic beds.

Another league country has an alarm clock, and a representation placed implicit a made-up bed.

"It looks similar a edifice room," said 1 erstwhile worker. They went connected to accidental that Mr Musk regularly sleeps astatine the Twitter HQ successful San Francisco.

Twitter did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from the BBC.

Last period Mr Musk - who completed his Twitter takeover successful October - emailed each unit astatine the institution saying they would request to enactment "long hours astatine precocious intensity".

"Only exceptional show volition represent a passing grade," helium wrote.

California authorities legislator Scott Wiener told the BBC connected Wednesday: "He's present making them [workers] slumber astatine Twitter.

"It's wide that helium doesn't truly attraction astir people. He doesn't attraction astir the radical who enactment for him."

A Department of Building Inspection authoritative told the BBC's US spouse CBS News: 'We request to marque definite the gathering is being utilized arsenic intended."

In a reply to a writer connected Twitter, Mr Musk posted that the metropolis should prioritise protecting children from the consequences of opioid cause misuse.

Forbes broke the communicative of "sad small conference-room sleeping quarters astatine the company's precocious depopulated headquarters", noting it was an evident betterment connected the improvised sleeping-bag-on-the-floor statement posted connected Twitter by 1 employee.

The bedrooms, Bloomberg reported, are besides said to accommodate unit from Tesla and different Musk-owned businesses brought successful to enactment astatine Twitter, "some of whom question to Twitter for enactment meetings", sources told the publication.

Department of Building Inspection authoritative Patrick Hannan told the San Francisco Chronicle it investigated each complaints and determination were antithetic rules for residential buildings, adjacent those utilized for short-term stays.

In May 2020, earlier Mr Musk's takeover, Twitter told employees they could enactment from location "forever" if they truthful wished due to the fact that its remote-working measures during Covid lockdowns had been a success.