Twitter Ordered to Change Building Permit to Keep Beds at HQ

If Twitter wants to keep the recently added dormitories at its San Francisco headquarters, the company needs to make some changes.

The city’s building control board issued a corrective notice to Twitter this weekorder the techniciant revise the labeling of rooms with beds in the building permit and in the floor plan. Alternatively, Twitter could choose to convert the rooms back to their original use as a conference room. The company was granted 15 days from the notification to make the adjustments, as reported first from the San Francisco Chronicle.

At Elon Musk “Hardcore” TwitterThe few left The employees at least had the opportunity to turn a blind eye. The company will be led by the new CEO built-in beds at its headquarters in San Francisco. But the office’s rapid renovation drew complaints and an investigation from the SF Construction Department.

This week’s announcement appears to be the conclusion of that investigation, signaling that Twitter employees will continue to be allowed to sleep in the downtown office, with some small changes. Theoretically, Twitter could be fined for false planning permission, but that hasn’t happened so far, according to the Chronicle.

San Francisco building codes require certain safety features in places where people sleep — but Twitter appears to be meeting them. During an earlier inspection in early January, an officer found that the converted bed areas “are equipped with a full life safety system, including sprinklers and a fire alarm,” according to the statement a report from the San Francisco Building Times.

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According to the Chronicle, if the office spaces were used as full-time residences, they would have to meet stricter city standards, such as certain minimum lighting and air access requirements. Having beds in a commercial office space doesn’t exactly meet San Francisco norms, however. “We see rest rooms, rest rooms, sleep cubicles and things like that a lot in modern office settings, and it doesn’t seem fundamentally different,” Dan Sider, chief of staff for the city’s planning department, told the outlet.

Ultimately, the beds at Twitter headquarters, while emblematic of a divisive leadership style and corporate culture, are probably not the social media platform’s biggest problem there. Perhaps that is even more urgent Complaint about missing rent which the landlord of Twitter has brought against the company. Twitter has reportedly not paid its landlord on Market St. in months and owes more than $6.7 million, according to the pending lawsuit. Under Musk’s leadership, the company has also reportedly waived rent at its headquarters in London, UK at least one other Office space in California.