Elon Musk has slammed San Francisco Mayor London Breed over an investigation into Twitter’s offices being converted into bedrooms.
According to local media, the city’s Department of Building Inspections is looking into potential building code violations.
Mr Musk accused the city of targeting businesses that provide bedrooms for “tired employees.”
The new Twitter CEO recently demanded that employees work long hours or leave.
‘We need to make sure the building is being used as intended,’ a Department of Building Inspection official told local public radio station KQED.
Mr Musk stated in a response to KQED journalist Ted Goldberg’s twitter thread that the city should prioritize protecting children from the consequences of opioid drug misuse.
Mr Musk emailed all Twitter employees last month, saying that the company “will need to be extremely hardcore” to succeed.
“This will mean working long hours at high intensity,” he said.
“Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
And in a now deleted tweet, Mr Musk posted he would work and sleep in the office “until the org is fixed”.
Forbes broke the story of the “sad little conference-room sleeping quarters at the company’s recently depopulated headquarters,” noting that it was an obvious improvement over one employee’s improvised sleeping-bag-on-the-floor arrangement posted on Twitter.
A photo shared with the publication showed “bright orange carpeting, a wooden bedside table and what appears to be a queen bed, replete with a table lamp and two office armchairs”, it said.
According to Bloomberg, the bedrooms also house employees from Tesla and other Musk-owned companies who have been brought in to work at Twitter, “some of whom travel to Twitter for work meetings,” according to sources.
Patrick Hannan, a Department of Building Inspection official, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the department investigated all complaints and that there were different rules for residential buildings, including those used for short-term stays.
Prior to Mr Musk’s takeover in May 2020, Twitter told employees they could work from home “forever” if they wanted to, citing the success of its remote-working measures during Covid lockdowns.
However, Mr Musk announced last month that remote working would be discontinued.
