Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on November 4, 2022. Elon Musk has hinted that Twitter may not keep its headquarters in San Francisco forever. In his virtual speech on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 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. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter may not keep its headquarters in San Francisco forever, its owner Elon Musk signaled 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.
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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.
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