Elon Musk defended Twitter’s controversial decision to put in makeshift bedrooms at its offices on Tuesday night after San Francisco authorities indicated they were investigating a criticism in regards to the move.
The tech billionaire fired back on Twitter in response to the investigation — tagging San Francisco Mayor London Breed in a post a few tragic child fentanyl overdose whilst he defended Twitter’s latest “bedrooms” as merely an effort to assist “drained employees” at the corporate.
“So city of SF attacks firms providing beds for drained employees as an alternative of constructing sure kids are secure from fentanyl,” Musk tweeted. “Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?”
Twitter faced intense scrutiny after reports surfaced that Musk had converted empty offices and conference rooms into rest areas – complete with mattresses and bedside tables.
Inside hours of the reports, San Francisco’s Department of Constructing Inspection confirmed they were examining whether the bedrooms violated city regulations.
A representative for San Francisco’s Department of Constructing Inspection said officials needed “to ensure the constructing is getting used as intended.”
“There are different constructing code requirements for residential buildings, including those getting used for short-term stays,” department spokesperson Patrick Hannan said in a press release. “Everyone in San Francisco deserves a secure place to live, work, play and sleep, and nobody is above the law.”
Musk is pushing Twitter’s remaining employees to embrace a “hardcore” work culture as he attempts to remake the social media site. Last month, the billionaire sent an email by which employees who survived a significant round of layoffs to “opt in” to his plan or leave the corporate.
Forbes, which first reported on the bedrooms, said they were “sleeping quarters paying homage to sad hotel rooms,” with “unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors.”
The outlet described one room as having a queen-sized bed, a picket bedside table and vivid orange carpeting. One source said there have been “4 to eight per floor” and grumbled that the bedrooms were “not a very good look.”
“It’s one more unspoken sign of disrespect. There isn’t any discussion. Identical to, beds showed up,” the source told Forbes.
A separate report from Insider said “dozens” of empty offices had been converted into bedrooms. Sources said the rooms are mostly getting used by members of Musk’s transition team at Twitter – which incorporates employees from his other firms Tesla and The Boring Company – in addition to staffers who traveled from out of town.
Jared Birchall, one in every of Musk’s closest advisers, has reportedly claimed one in every of the rooms.
As The Post reported in November, Twitter worker Esther Crawford was previously photographed while resting in a sleeping bag at the corporate’s offices. The image surfaced as Musk pushed tight deadlines for his overhauled “Twitter Blue” subscription service.
“When your team is pushing around the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork,” Crawford tweeted on the time.
