SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has experienced a number of adjustments since Elon Musk acquired control of the company last year. Recent news has brought to light the fact that Twitter employees are now required to bring their own toilet paper to work as a result of the company's cost-cutting initiatives, which were implemented by the second-richest man in the world.
The janitors who worked at the company's San Francisco headquarters were sacked by Musk, according to the sources, after they went on strike and demanded a raise.
According to a source, Twitter's office no longer receives housekeeping and security services, which has left the restrooms filthy. The San Francisco workplace, according to a source, smells like "leftover takeout food and body odour."
Additionally, Chief Twit shut down the remaining four floors and forced employees to work from only two stories. According to the reports, 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. He 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.
"That is why I slashed costs like hard over the last five weeks," he continued. 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.
Along with dismissing janitors and closing four floors, Musk also took the remarkable action of closing Twitter's data centers in Sacramento, California. Employees were reportedly told cost-cutting was more important than considering how the closure of data centres would affect the site's functionality.
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