Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Andrei Sokolov/Picture Alliance via Getty Images
Twitter might not keep its San Francisco headquarters forever, its owner Elon Musk hinted Tuesday.
In his virtual speech at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London, Musk provided a noncommittal response to an interviewer’s question about whether the company would remain in the California city.
San Francisco officials announced last week that they were investigating Twitter after six former employees alleged that Musk’s team broke the law by turning the company’s headquarters into a “Twitter hotel.” The idea was to create dormitories for workers who were forced to stay up late and work on the social media platform after Musk fired or fired nearly 80% of Twitter employees.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said it will conduct an investigation into the new allegations.
The former Twitter employees allege that Musk’s team ordered numerous changes to the company’s headquarters in a 1930s Art Deco building in downtown San Francisco that violated building codes. Those changes included disabling lights and adding locks that wouldn’t open in an emergency, according to the lawsuit.
In 2021, Musk relocated the headquarters of Tesla, the electric car and solar panel company he runs, from California to Texas. The move followed a dispute with health officials in California’s Alameda County over whether to reopen a Tesla factory early in the coronavirus pandemic.
