San Francisco investigates Twitter about its office hotel

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(Pocket-lint) – The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection is investigating Twitter after the company installed beds in its offices so employees could work later.

Twitter has decided to install beds in its offices in San Francisco to allow its employees to work later. This way, they didn’t have to go home after their shift, which probably also allowed them to start working sooner after waking up. The beds emerged after owner and CEO Elon Musk demanded that Twitter employees work harder than ever.

Musk told employees they needed to work longer hours and commit to an “extremely tough” experience while building Twitter 2.0. As a result, some employees were photographed sleeping on the floor. Shortly after, the beds appeared.

But as the building inspection department points out, offices aren’t made for sleeping in.

“We need to make sure the building is used as intended,” said Patrick Hannan, director of communications for the ministry, in a statement reported by Forbes, “Building code requirements are different for residential buildings, including those which are used for short-term stays”.

The beds themselves are made up of “queen-size” mattresses, with some placed in what Forbes describes as a conference room “based on two large telepresence monitors on the wall.”

Whether Musk or Twitter will have to remove the beds or get an additional permit remains to be seen. But this is yet another example of Twitter drifting from issue to issue, as it has since Musk took control of Twitter in a takeover. for $44 billion at the end of October.

Written by Oliver Haslam.