Employees of the social network Twitter are taking their toilet paper to work, after billionaire Elon Musk announced cuts in the company’s expenses, including cleaning services.
Twitter’s new CEO recently said he’s been “cutting costs like crazy” since taking control of the social network, comparing the company to “an airplane hurtling down at high speed with engines on fire.” Where the controls don’t work.
The company’s headquarters in San Francisco, USA, will be without cleaning services, according to the “New York Times”, after removing four floors of the building, leaving all employees working on only two floors.
According to sources close to the company, the absence of the cleaning staff “left the office in a state of disarray”, with “dirty” bathrooms and the smell of “food leftovers and body odor”.
Lack of maintenance in the bathrooms has forced some employees to take their own toilet paper rolls to work. But the situation appears to have had the same environment in the Seattle office, where cleaning services have also been reduced, the New York Times revealed.
Employees at Twitter’s cleaning services are being denied entry to the premises without notice after seeking better pay and the company cutting back on cleaning contracts. Now, they are picketing in front of the headquarters offices.
Cleaners do the picking outside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. A representative for the local SEIU union said they were told on Friday that Twitter is ending contact with the group that contracts to clean Twitter’s offices. pic.twitter.com/4iCT92IQH4
– Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) December 5, 2022
Since November, Musk has tried to save nearly €500 million in non-labor costs, according to an internal document seen by the North American newspaper, and has laid off roughly 75% of the company’s workforce since completing the purchase.
However, the billionaire has already admitted that he may have gone too far with the cuts. In the same conversation on Twitter Spaces where he admitted he was “cutting costs like crazy,” he stressed that they may have exaggerated some situations like cutting lunch or closing accounts on the platform.
Elon Musk acquired the social network in November 2022 for €41.5 billion ($44 billion).
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