Hm, are these facilities allowed to be used as "housing"? I think some local ordinance or law may say differently.

Before you know it, the authorities will do a midnight raid.

No, not that redundancy raid computer stuff, although, maybe just to remove more redundancy. Who knows...

Commercial zones must be kept at greater than practical cycling distance from residential zones otherwise people might not need to buy a car.

I was wondering the same thing. I'm sure the SF zoning authority is going to have some thoughts on this. Though Twitler has long bought into the idea that laws only apply to other people, so it'll probably take sending the cops in to remove the furnishings to affect any sort of change. Twitter will probably be out of business long before the city could go to court to enforce the payment of fines levied.

In my days, you would use space under your desk as a capsule hotel. 3 am, barely can type, put the sleeping pad on, go for a quick spliff and then jump in the sleeping bag, play some Cafe del Mar tunes on your headphones and drift away into heavenly sleep.

You wouldn't even have to think about setting an alarm clock, as the cleaners would be going round waking everyone up in the morning.

I sit down in a meeting room, check out the selection of cookies, wait for them to slip some relaxing Powerpoint on the screen and drift away into a heavenly sleep

Yes, but that "conversion" into living space was both temporary and not officially sanctioned / created by the corporation.

Turning zoned office commercial space into residential space officially sanctioned by the owner / leasee, won't go over well with the Zoning Board. Nor the Fire Department (I'm sure the office space does not meet residential fire isolation codes, not at all), etc.

I worked for a very large, 2 letter name, US company for a while.

I out performed my peers by a considerable margin one year and was given a "role model" rating.

The next year I did the same and was rated as "average", as my performance scale was moved to reflect last years achievements.

Consequently, many of my peers gained a higher rating (and the associated pay increase) even though I provably was of greater value to the company.

"Copula hock in lido militum" I left.

Corporate egos should go, to be replace by work life balance.

" Copula hock in lido militum" "

What has German wine to do with it?

What else would you drink while relaxing at the lido?

That's more or less been my experience: performance simply raises the bar for recognition and it is never judged relative to the standards of others or to absolute, objective contribution. One is rewarded for exceeding their own past and the worst thing one can do is set that bar too high to sustain in the future.

After five years at one place, I approached management and told them that I was unhappy because promises to bring my pay-scale up to par with my industry, given my experience, had not been met despite the fact that the entire small business was then pretty much defined by what had been my own, personal prototype – started literally from file-new-project, by me, and grown, by me, into its overwhelmingly dominant position. They said they did not need me any more – they had the product, now – and that they did not care about my concerns. Wouldn't everyone like to earn more? Nobody else was getting bumped so why should I be? Absolute contribution and effort and excellence and the fact that I had stuck through the company's hard times – the very reason I was paid below par, then – were forgotten, as were the all-nighters, the coding-on-holiday, the support-calls-on-weekends and the rest.

After many such experiences, I've learned: one must go in with excessive demands that must be met to the letter and, then, one does the minimum and spares the horses – more is never rewarded but relative decline is never tolerated so excellence is only a route to disadvantage in the future.

Do these employees expect that their going-of-the-extra-mile, today, will lead to something in their future? If so: they're naiive fools – at best, they will be recognised as people who "can" and subsequently find themselves having to compensate for the shortcommings of others who "can't".

It is ironic that I would be less bitter and jaded, today, had I stood up for myself and demanded more from the start of my career instead of trusting the promises of corporations and believing the stupid fallacy that merit, effort and ingenuity were the routes to success.

Caver_Dave,

Finally decyphered your latin-esque comment !!! :)

Yes, I know the 'very large, 2 letter name, US company' very well ..... this is standard practice !!!

Work/life balance is only noticed when you 'suddenly' reach the point of 'needing to remove' all the knives from your back and question if it is worth it !!!

:)

When you start working at a company you must figure out the pace things are going at and then try to work below it, so that managers are unhappy, but not unhappy enough to fire you. Never try to be the best - it will only get shareholders better off, never yourself.

This statement is akin to the UK's previous Chief Inspector of Schools claiming that, and here I quote, "satisfactory isn't good enough".

WTF does "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade" mean? Can everyone be 'exceptional'? Does 'exceptional' refer to comparison with people outside Twitter, maybe in Musk's other enterprises, or the 'industry' in general?

Reminds me of what an RAF Wing Commander told me about rating RAF staff in their annual reviews. Everyone was "above average", because if you were only rated "average" that was the end of your career.

You'll have to excuse me now, I need to re-set my hyperbole alarm.

This office space made redundant by telepresence is now advertised on Airbnb to recoup lost ad revenues.

There's another more worrying explanation for the arrival of the beds considering he said this.

Im sure there was a meme that would fit very nicely just here, something about what the internet mainly gets used for? Although I can't *quite* see how cat videos fit in....

Anybody want a pony?

Ghastly as this is, I wonder how many other Big Tech offices have similar facilities.

Many years ago I went for an interview with a (now defunct) mobile OS company. The chap who interviewed me said he had a mattress in a store room where he could bunk off when he felt tired.

The couch in the back of the test lab which survived from our startup days finally went in the last great office cleanup.

Just in time for a major snowstorm that knocked out transit and left a few people considering staying overnight.

Standard silicon valley approach to unrealistic schedules. This is just the logical next step.

It's nice to have a nice comfy place when your getting F--ked...

My guess is that Musk designed the room himself with The Sims 2.

One night's sleep or a power nap? Don't lots of companies have 'nap rooms'? I've had naps that have lasted 4 or 5 hours ;-}

Not really a facepalm, he's actually yawing...

[young child] Daddy, where was I made?

[Elon Musk] Well, I was working hardcore at Twitter HQ, as was your Mum. We had some of the offices converted to bedrooms, it was that hardcore. Anyway, one thing led to another and...

[young child] Daddy, what's Twitter?

It's along term solution to recruitment - but Musk does seem to be trying his best to personally repopulate all his companies

With this news I will finally be able to get purchase approval for the business hammock I have wanted ever since I saw them on the Simpsons.

The factual part of Forbes article:

> On Monday, employees returning to work at the company’s San Francisco location were greeted by modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors

Then there's a few hundred more words of idle but not necessarily innocent speculation.

The register then does a rehash of Forbes article and adds some more speculation.

I don't care if we're talking about Genghis Khan's evil cousin here. This is not news, it's entertainment at best, propaganda at worst.

Go on, now express your displeasure with me pointing out the obvious.

just remember that 90% of everything is crap.

So, in the face of the mystery, wonder, and brevity of life why waste it being a slave to someone else's crap;

it's enough to learn to deal with our own, and then do something worthwhile with the other 10%.

Adair: "90% of everything is crap."

If God did not like shit, She would not have made so many arseholes.