San Francisco’s Division of Constructing Inspection stated Tuesday it was investigating a grievance that Twitter had created makeshift bedrooms at its headquarters within the metropolis, as new proprietor Elon Musk seeks to instill a “hardcore” tradition on the social media firm.
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Musk defends bedrooms at Twitter headquarters as San Francisco investigates
“Nobody is above the regulation,” he stated.
The grievance — despatched on Twitter to San Francisco’s 311 service — got here after Forbes reported that a number of rooms in Twitter’s workplace have been being transformed into sleeping areas, describing them as “modest bedrooms that includes unmade mattresses, drab curtains and big conference-room telepresence displays.”
Musk appeared to verify the report, writing on Twitter: “So metropolis of SF assaults corporations offering beds for drained staff as a substitute of creating certain youngsters are secure from fentanyl. The place are your priorities @LondonBreed!?” He tagged San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D), whose workplace didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Twitter, which gutted its communications workforce in a spherical of mass layoffs after Musk took the helm, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
The obvious set up of bedrooms at Twitter’s headquarters comes after a product supervisor on the firm shared a photograph of her sleeping on the ground of what seemed to be a gathering room. “When your workforce is pushing round the clock to make deadlines generally you #SleepWhereYouWork,” she stated in reference to the picture of her wrapped in a sleeping bag.
“We’re reaching out to constructing representatives so we are able to conduct a website inspection as a part of our investigation,” stated the Division of Constructing Inspection’s Hannan. “If we discover suite 900 now not meets the constructing code, we’ll difficulty a discover of violation, which will probably be posted to our web site and on the website, similar to all notices of violation,” referring to Twitter’s headquarters at 1355 Market Avenue.
“San Francisco treats all complaints and property house owners the identical,” he stated, noting that anybody with “extra data or photographs that might help our investigation” might ship them to the division by e mail.