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☆ A former Twitter engineer says Elon Musk wrongly fired him for leaking information to the press
  + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Read previewA former engineer at Twitter, now X, says that he was wrongfully fired from his job after being accused of leaking information to the press. Speaking to Zoë Schiffer in her newly released book, "Extremely Hardcore," Lin said that someone lied about him leaking information to the press. So when Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the engineer was on board. AdvertisementWorkers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the downtown San Francisco building that housed what was formally known as Twitter, rebranded X by owner Elon Musk. Lin still insists that he had no involvement in leaking information, Schiffer writes in the book.
Persons: —, Randall Lin, Zoë Schiffer, Lin, Schiffer, Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, Noah Berger, I've, Zoë, James Musk, Elon Musk's, Elon Organizations: Service, Twitter, Elon, Business, Twitter's San, Workers Locations: Twitter's, Twitter's San Francisco, San Francisco
☆ Dropbox plans to pay $79 million to shrink its huge SF office, after CEO says the RTO push will fail
  + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Dropbox will pay $79 million to give up 165,000 square feet of office space at its San Francisco HQ. The company switched to remote working during the pandemic and workers now follow a '90/10' routine. CEO Drew Houston has backed remote working, and said the return-to-office push is doomed to fail. AdvertisementAdvertisementDropbox is spending $79 million to give up a quarter of its San Francisco headquarters, as it continues to bet that remote working is here to stay. Dropbox's move to cut back on its physical office space is a fresh blow to San Francisco, which is going through a commercial real estate crisis .
Persons: Dropbox, Drew Houston, —, Fortune, Houston, Jones Lang LaSalle Organizations: San Francisco HQ, Service, San, SEC, CNBC, Jones Locations: San Francisco, Mission Bay
☆ Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord as commercial real estate softens
  + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Dropbox said Friday that it's agreed to return over one quarter of its San Francisco headquarters to the landlord as the commercial real estate market continues to soften following the Covid pandemic. In a filing, Dropbox said it agreed to surrender to its landlord 165,244 square feet of space and pay $79 million in termination fees. Under the amendment to its lease agreement, Dropbox will offload the space over time through the first quarter of 2025. In addition, Dropbox took a $175.2 million impairment on the office last year "as a result of adverse changes" in the market. Dropbox had tried working with its landlord to sublease space at the headquarters, but the real estate market deteriorated, finance chief Tim Regan, told analysts on a February earnings call.
Persons: Dropbox, it's, we've, Drew Houston, Dropbox's, Uber, Tim Regan Organizations: San Francisco, Vir Biotechnology, CNBC, Private, KKR, Kilroy Realty Corp, San Francisco Chronicle, Microsoft Locations: Mission, Dropbox
☆ Elon Musk is auctioning off Twitter's signs and decorations as part of the X HQ overhaul — take a look
  + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
X — formerly Twitter — will auction off items from its San Francisco HQ due to its brand overhaul. Just because these items are being auctioned off doesn't mean you'll be able to fill your living room with furniture from Twitter HQ. HGP will help buyers carry items into the loading area, but it does not provide shipping services. In January, the company sold items from its HQ including a pizza oven, office furniture, and an espresso machine. The Twitter bird and signature sky blue theme are slowly being removed in favor of the black and white X branding.
Persons: Elon Musk Organizations: Twitter, San Francisco, Heritage Global Partners, Elon Locations: San Francisco
☆ Complaints about Elon Musk's giant light-up 'X' sign accused the company of creating a 'massive nighttime nuisance' and showing 'zero respect' for its neighbors
  + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
San Francisco got 24 complaints about the giant light-up sign on X's HQ, CNN reported. San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection got 24 complaints about the giant light-up "X" sign Elon Musk placed on the headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter, the department's spokesperson told CNN. "That new 'X' sign looks really unstable and sketchy," one complaint reads. A crane was used to remove some of the letters from the old sign on the company's San Francisco HQ. The notice ordered X to stop the work and either obtain a building permit for the sign or dismantle it, which also requires a building permit.
Persons: Elon Musk's, Elon Musk, Musk, Justin Sullivan Organizations: CNN, Morning, San Francisco's Department, Twitter, San Francisco, ., of Locations: Francisco, San Francisco
☆ Elon Musk just put a huge X logo on Twitter's San Francisco HQ – and may have broken some rules
  + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk had a huge X logo put on the roof of its San Francisco headquarters on Friday. It comes after Musk ordered the Twitter sign to be removed from the building on Monday. Elon Musk had a huge "X" logo put on the roof of its headquarters in San Francisco Friday as part of his overhaul of the company formerly known as Twitter. The X sign lights up at night. The Notice of Violation said the "@" symbol on the Twitter sign was "dangling" and could cause harm to pedestrians if it fell.
Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Patrick Hanna, Noah Berger Organizations: San Francisco, San Francisco Friday, Twitter, Associated Press, Department of, Inspection, Monday, San Francisco Police Department, Apple Locations: San Francisco
☆ Elon Musk claims the only thing stopping him from turning part of Twitter's San Francisco HQ into a homeless shelter is the building's owner
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk says he wants to turn one of Twitter's San Francisco buildings into a homeless shelter. "We're only using one of the buildings so the other building could be a homeless shelter," Musk said. The building's owners didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside of regular working hours. When asked for further details about how the homeless shelter would operate, Musk said: "I don't know, we could just let people stay there. Twitter opened its first office in San Francisco in 2006 and the company's HQ has been based there ever since.
☆ Elon Musk painted over the 'w' on Twitter's sign at its San Francisco headquarters, changing it to 'Titter'
  + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk painted over the "w" in Twitter's name on the sign outside its San Francisco headquarters. He said Twitter's landlord told the company that the sign was legally required to read as "Twitter." In a tweet on Sunday, the social media platform's CEO posted a picture of the sign with the "w" painted over in white to blend in with the background. "Elon Musk, in a remarkable show of maturity, has removed the "w" from Twitter's logo outside their San Francisco HQ," LeGate's caption read. Musk has made several drastic changes to the company's San Francisco headquarters since he took over Twitter.
☆ Yelp workers flocked to Texas and Florida from New York and San Francisco after the company went fully remote
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The number of Yelp workers living in Florida and Texas grew four-fold between 2019 and 2022. And the share living near its offices in New York, Washington, DC, and Chicago fell by two-thirds. Yelp says it is now fully remote, though some roles require workers to live in certain areas of the US. Yelp said that the share of workers living near its San Francisco headquarters plummeted by 70% between 2019 and 2022, while the share living near its offices in New York, Washington, DC, and Chicago each fell by two-thirds. Yelp said in February 2021 that it was shifting to a remote-first model, then announced last June that it would go fully remote.
☆ Elon Musk's Twitter ordered by officials to properly label bedrooms in San Francisco HQ as sleeping areas — or convert them back to offices within 15 days
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Kate Duffy | Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
San Francisco told Twitter to label converted bedrooms as sleeping areas, per a correction notice. If it doesn't comply, Twitter has 15 days to convert the bedrooms back to offices in its HQ. Officials launched an investigation in December into Twitter's office bedrooms. Patrick Hannan, the Building Inspection Department's communications director, confirmed to Insider in December it was investigating reports that Twitter had converted some office rooms into sleeping areas in its HQ. A former Twitter employee told BBC News that Musk had often slept in Twitter's offices since taking over the company.
☆ King Charles III's $19 billion real estate firm is taking legal action against Elon Musk's Twitter over unpaid rent
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Twitter faces legal action from the Crown Estate, which manages properties owned by King Charles III. Insider understands that the estate has begun legal proceedings against Twitter over its London offices. King Charles is the ultimately owner of the estate, though has little day-to-day involvement. In December 2022, The New York Times reported that Twitter hadn't paid rent on any of its offices for weeks. The Crown Estate manages $19.2 billion worth of properties including 241 in central London, according to its most recent annual report.
☆ Twitter employees have been bringing their own toilet paper to the office after janitorial services were cut, report says
  + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Bathrooms at Twitter's San Francisco HQ are dirty amid a lack of janitors, per the New York Times. Twitter failed to negotiate a new contract with a janitorial company after they went on strike. The company's San Francisco headquarters have been left with dirty bathrooms and the office is in disarray, per the publication. The company didn't negotiate a new contract with Flagship, the janitorial company that employs them, according to unions. The Boring Company's CEO Steve Davis, who reportedly slept at Twitter's headquarters with his partner and newborn baby, is supervising the cost-cutting exercise.
☆ Elon Musk makes Twitter visitors wait for more than an hour – and they cannot speak before being spoken to, report says
  + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Twitter visitors often wait more than an hour to speak to Elon Musk, The Washington Post reported. They're told not to speak before Musk, who sometimes watches videos in meetings, per WaPo. It added that visitors must wait to see Musk in an area next to the 10th-floor conference room that the CEO works from. A person close to Musk told The Post that he was "uncovering and solving and programming all night." Musk has previously told staff that Twitter 2.0 would be "extremely hardcore" and would involve working "long hours at high intensity."
☆ Elon Musk defends installing bedrooms at Twitter HQ, saying he's merely 'providing beds for tired employees'
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk has defended his decision to install bedrooms in Twitter's San Francisco HQ. Musk said he's simply "providing beds for tired employees." San Francisco has reportedly launched an investigation into the installation of the bedrooms. Twitter employees on Monday discovered some offices and conference rooms at Twitter HQ had bare mattresses and curtains inside, two anonymous people with knowledge of the matter told Forbes. Representatives for Twitter and the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment, made outside normal working hours.
☆ Elon Musk converts some Twitter offices into bedrooms at San Francisco HQ in light of 'hardcore' ultimatum, report says
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk has fitted out Twitter's San Francisco headquarters with bedrooms, sources told Forbes. A trash can in one of the office bedrooms already had waste inside, indicating that an employee had used the amenities, the source added. "People are already putting in late nights, so it makes sense to an extent," the source told Forbes. Twitter failed to announce or explain the reasons behind the new office bedrooms to employees, one person familiar with the situation told Forbes. "It's not a good look," one source told Forbes.
☆ Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter HQ were costing more than $400 per meal because 'almost no one' was in the office
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk said Sunday that free staff lunches at Twitter HQ were costing more than $400 per meal. He said badge-in records at the San Francisco office showed average occupancy below 10%. Musk was tweeting Sunday after The New York Times reported that Twitter employees would have to start paying for office lunches themselves. Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco HQ, Musk said. Musk was challenged on his $400 meal cost estimate by Tracy Hawkins, a former Twitter employee.
☆ Inside Elon Musk's first day as leader of Twitter: Cancelled meetings, fake layoffs, orders to print out code, and a team of Musk advisers camped out in a separate part of the company's HQ.
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Twitter employees predicted chaos after Elon Musk took over the company. Musk entered Twitter's San Francisco HQ carrying a bathroom sink, a joke about his ownership "sinking in." Meanwhile, engineers from Tesla were in Twitter's San Francisco office, some meeting individually with Twitter engineers, asking them about their work and some technical aspects of the platform. Musk worked on Friday at Twitter's San Francisco HQ with a small team he brought in to assist him in taking over the operations, people familiar with the matter said. Later in the day, he said "comedy is now legal on Twitter" and then separately tweeted an apparent joke about the two men who faked being laid off Twitter engineers.
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