Twitter has experienced a number of modifications since Elon Musk assumed control of the social media platform last year. According to a recent story, Twitter employees are now required to bring their own toilet paper to work as a result of cost-cutting measures implemented by the second-richest man in the world.
The company’s janitors at its San Francisco headquarters were dismissed by Musk, according to the New York Times, after they demanded more compensation and went on strike.
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According to a New York Times investigation, Twitter’s workplace no longer receives housekeeping and security services, which has led to filthy bathrooms there. The San Francisco workplace, according to a source, smells like “leftover takeout food and body odor.”
Additionally, the Chief Twit shut down the remaining four floors and forced employees to work from only two stories. According to the NYT story, Twitter no longer paid the rent on its Seattle office building, forcing the staff to work remotely and leaving the firm with only San Francisco and New York as its locations.
At some of its New York locations, Musk has also let go of cleaners and security personnel. Additionally, according to the NYT story, Twitter hasn’t paid the rent for its San Francisco location.
The software billionaire has already been outspoken in his criticism of the company’s financial management. Elon Musk compared the firm to a person on a jet that is “heading into the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don’t work” at a Twitter Spaces event in December 2022.
Musk further continued, “That is why I slashed costs like hard over the last five weeks. The Chief Twit claimed that in order to prevent a $3 billion budgetary gap, numerous cost-cutting measures, which he has dubbed ‘zero-based budgeting,’ were required.”
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Along with dismissing janitors and closing four floors, Musk also took the remarkable action of closing Twitter’s data centres in Sacramento, California. Employees claimed they were told cost cutting was more crucial than considering how the closure of data centres would affect the site’s functioning.
