Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter HQ
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Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter HQ were costing more than $400 per meal because 'almost no one' was in the office
He said badge-in records at the San Francisco office showed average occupancy below 10%.
A former Twitter employee said spend on breakfast and lunch was $20-25 per person.
Elon Musk said Sunday that free staff lunches at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters were costing more than $400 per meal because 'almost no one' was in the office.
He said that according to badge-in records, average occupancy in the office over the last 12 months was below 10%, peaking at 25%.
Musk was tweeting Sunday after The New York Times reported that Twitter employees would have to start paying for office lunches themselves.
He said criticism of the move was "especially bizarre given that almost no one came into the office," adding: "There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast. They don't even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building."
Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco HQ, Musk said.
Elon Musk officially closed the deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, becoming the owner of the social platform in late October. His first act was to fire Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and a number of other top executives at the company.
Musk's tenure at Twitter has gotten off to a controversial start. He has introduced a plan to start charging users $8 per month for a "blue check," altering the company's verification process. He has also laid off roughly 50% of its staff. Musk tweeted that he had no choice because Twitter was losing "$4M/day."
Twitter didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
In his first address to Twitter employees after taking control of the company, Musk told staff to expect 80-hour work weeks and fewer perks like free office lunches, according to Bloomberg.
In an interview ahead of the G20 summit in Indonesia, Musk said he was working from "morning to night, seven days a week," adding: "The amount that I torture myself is next level."
Twitter ended remote-working soon after Musk took the reins of the company. Last week, Musk sent an email to staff at 2.39 a.m. telling them to return to the office or "resignation accepted."
It followed 50% of Twitter's 7,500 staff being laid off after Musk took over.
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He said badge-in records at the San Francisco office showed average occupancy below 10%.
A former Twitter employee said spend on breakfast and lunch was $20-25 per person.
Elon Musk said Sunday that free staff lunches at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters were costing more than $400 per meal because 'almost no one' was in the office.
He said that according to badge-in records, average occupancy in the office over the last 12 months was below 10%, peaking at 25%.
Musk was tweeting Sunday after The New York Times reported that Twitter employees would have to start paying for office lunches themselves.
He said criticism of the move was "especially bizarre given that almost no one came into the office," adding: "There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast. They don't even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building."
Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco HQ, Musk said.
Elon Musk officially closed the deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, becoming the owner of the social platform in late October. His first act was to fire Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and a number of other top executives at the company.
Musk's tenure at Twitter has gotten off to a controversial start. He has introduced a plan to start charging users $8 per month for a "blue check," altering the company's verification process. He has also laid off roughly 50% of its staff. Musk tweeted that he had no choice because Twitter was losing "$4M/day."
Twitter didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
In his first address to Twitter employees after taking control of the company, Musk told staff to expect 80-hour work weeks and fewer perks like free office lunches, according to Bloomberg.
In an interview ahead of the G20 summit in Indonesia, Musk said he was working from "morning to night, seven days a week," adding: "The amount that I torture myself is next level."
Twitter ended remote-working soon after Musk took the reins of the company. Last week, Musk sent an email to staff at 2.39 a.m. telling them to return to the office or "resignation accepted."
It followed 50% of Twitter's 7,500 staff being laid off after Musk took over.
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