Elon Reportedly Wants Its Most ‘Hardcore’ Tweeps to Sleep in Beds at Twitter HQ

Imagine strolling into work on a Monday after spending the weekend making an attempt to decompress from the fixed pressures to do extra with much less and meet the insurmountable expectations of your new boss. You’ve been harried not simply by your personal workload however by the fixed information cycle reminding you that day-after-day the job you’ve given years of your life to might quickly be on the chopping block.

Then you stroll although the doorways to your workplace and discover that your boss has began placing spartan bedrooms within the workplace area, as if to remind you “this is now your life.” According to a report from Forbes, that is precisely what Twitter workers encountered Monday on the firm’s San Francisco headquarters. Forbes reported primarily based on leaked pictures that the bedrooms got here with unmade mattresses, orange carpeting, “drab” curtains and a few desk chairs and displays.

Based on the report alone, it’s onerous to inform what number of rooms had been transformed into bedrooms in complete, however the worker Forbes talked to stated there have been now “four to eight per floor.” Another nameless supply reported the beds had been on a largely empty ground of the San Fran workplace, and that it may very well be an amenity for workers who had been already placing in late hours.

Though, similar to many workers dragging their our bodies into work on a Monday would possibly suppose, one worker additionally informed Forbes that the beds not less than regarded “comfortable.”

Twitter’s new proprietor has an odd fascination with getting employees to spend virtually all their time at their office. Earlier this yr, Musk’s different massive firm Tesla had reportedly informed employees at its Shanghai, China manufacturing unit they’d have to sleep at work to proceed manufacturing throughout lockdowns amidst the covid pandemic. The firm reportedly introduced out sleeping luggage and mattresses for them to sleep on the manufacturing unit ground. Earlier in November, there have been extra reviews of Twitter workers utilizing sleeping luggage contained in the workplace after working late.

Of course, this results in the query of who can be altering out the mattress sheets and cleansing the rooms after drained and dusty Tweeps (what the corporate calls its inside employees) come again from the proverbial Twitter mines. As of Monday, the unionized contract janitors who labored on the San Francisco workplace went on strike after 20 of their members had been reportedly axed, union reps informed The New Republic. The janitors had been picketing exterior the workplace Monday morning. Tesla had previously fired hundreds of janitors and bus drivers in spring 2020, in the course of the early pandemic months.

Twitter didn’t reply to a request for remark. The firm has saved mum so far as the media is worried after Musk’s takeover in October.

One nameless worker quoted by Forbes stated the corporate gave employees no discover that a few of their workplace area was being transformed into bedrooms. The act of placing bedrooms inside Twitter’s places of work all appears to be a part of billionaire proprietor Elon Musk’s makes an attempt to “hardcore”-ify all those that survived cuts. Last month, Twitter demanded that workers join a brand new “hardcore” model of Twitter or give up, however that didn’t work out so nice when many workers reportedly went for a severance package deal as an alternative.