Twitter has converted a amount of rooms in its San Francisco headquarters to sleeping places, Forbes documented Dec. 5.
A photograph of 1 of the rooms seen by Forbes bundled a bedside desk and what appeared to be a queen-dimension mattress, alongside with two office armchairs. A single resource, who questioned to keep on being nameless, estimated there are 4 to 8 these kinds of “bedroom pods†on each ground of the headquarters currently. The organization didn’t give extra context as to the function of the rooms, a resource advised Forbes.
Twitter’s workforce has been slash in fifty percent considering the fact that Elon Musk took in excess of the company previous thirty day period and directed managers to lay off countless numbers of staff to lower prices. On Nov. 16 Musk sent an email to Twitter’s remaining staff members asking them to dedicate to an “extremely hardcore†workload in get to make his vision for “Twitter 2.0†or resign, ensuing in additional team departures.
In a sign of the shifting culture at Musk’s Twitter, an employee on the merchandise crew tweeted out a photo of herself sleeping on the floor to meet up with a deadline for rolling out a new variation of the company’s paid subscription support, Twitter Blue, in early November. Musk has regularly delayed a relaunch of Twitter Blue immediately after its paid out verification aspect was plagued with fake accounts impersonating serious firms and general public figures.
Musk has spoken previously about sleeping in the factories of his electrical vehicle corporation, Tesla, and has pushed for his workforce to function in the business, relatively than remotely. He ordered Twitter workforce again into the office in his initial electronic mail to employees, even however the company was one of the initial tech companies to undertake a “work-from-anywhere†plan in the course of the pandemic.
