A bedroom at Twitter HQ
(Picture: BBC)Parts of Twitter’s San Francisco HQ have been converted into bedrooms for staff after Elon Musk demanded they work “long hours at high intensity”.
Photos obtained by the BBC showed a room with a double bed, wardrobe and slippers, while another showed sofas being turned into makeshift beds.
The city’s Department of Building Inspection confirmed it was investigating potential building code violations over the beds.
Musk said the city was attacking companies for providing beds to “tired employees”, and said in response to a journalist on Twitter that the city should prioritise protecting children from the consequences of opioid abuse.
In a now-deleted tweet, the entrepreneur posted that he would work and sleep in the office “until the org is fixed".
Another conference room has an alarm clock, and a picture placed over a made-up bed.
One former employee told BBC News: “It looks like a hotel room.” A Department of Building Inspection official told CBS News: “We need to make sure the building is being used as intended.”
Another employee who spoke to Forbes said there were maybe “four to eight” bedrooms per floor, adding “they look comfortable.”
According to the news site Bloomberg, the bedrooms also accommodate staff from Tesla and other Musk-owned businesses brought in to work at Twitter, "some of whom travel to Twitter for work meetings”.
Musk has previously claimed to have slept at company properties before, once tweeting about “sleeping at factory” in 2018, referring to the Tesla factory.
California state senator Scott Wiener said: "He’s now making them [workers] sleep at Twitter.
"It’s clear that he doesn’t really care about people. He doesn’t care about the people who work for him."
Twitter has been contacted for comment.
