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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles

Elon Musk accused of turning Twitter offices into bedrooms

A room allegedly converted to a bedrooms at Twitter’s offices in San Francisco
A room allegedly converted to a bedroom at Twitter’s offices in San Francisco. Photograph: c/o BBC

Twitter is under investigation by city officials in San Francisco following a complaint that the company allegedly converted rooms in its headquarters to sleeping quarters, an inquiry that has drawn scorn from Elon Musk.

As of Monday, the office has “modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors” with four to eight beds a floor, employees told Forbes. The changes appear to be part of Musk’s plan for “hardcore Twitter” in which he’s demanded workers dedicate “long hours at high intensity” after he fired nearly half the company’s workforce.

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