San Francisco authorities have opened a new investigation into Twitter after six former senior employees filed a lawsuit against the company, according to the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle. The plaintiffs are accusing the company of breaking local and federal laws and of violating building codes in its effort to turn some of the rooms in its headquarters into bedrooms for employees.
The city’s authorities first launched an investigation into the company in December 2022 following a Forbes report that it converted some of its conference rooms into bedrooms so its staff would have somewhere to rest. The employees were reportedly given no context about the bedrooms, but one could come to the conclusion, based on Elon Musk’s ultimatum that they commit to an “extremely hardcore” Twitter that expects them to work “long hours at high intensity,” that Musk expected employees to work very long hours that they’d need somewhere to rest in or sleep in overnight.
