<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">The BBC has been given photos of Twitter office space that has been converted into bedrooms, which San Francisco authorities are probing as a possible building code violation.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">One image showed a room with a double bed, including a wardrobe and slippers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An ex-worker said new Twitter boss Elon Musk has been staying at the headquarters since he bought the firm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He last month emailed all Twitter staff saying they "will need to be extremely hardcore" to succeed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection has confirmed it is investigating potential violations following a complaint.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr Musk said the city was attacking companies for providing beds to "tired employees".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a now-deleted tweet, Mr Musk posted that he would work and sleep in the office "until the org is fixed".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BBC has also been given pictures of sofas at Twitter being used as beds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another conference room has an alarm clock, and a picture placed over a made-up bed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It looks like a hotel room," said one former worker. They went on to say that Mr Musk regularly sleeps at the Twitter HQ in San Francisco.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last month Mr Musk - who completed his Twitter takeover in October - emailed all staff at the company saying they would need to work "long hours at high intensity".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade," he wrote.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">California state senator Scott Wiener told the BBC on Wednesday: "He's now making them [workers] sleep at Twitter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It's clear that he doesn't really care about people. He doesn't care about the people who work for him."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Department of Building Inspection official told the BBC's US partner CBS News: 'We need to make sure the building is being used as intended."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a reply to a journalist on Twitter, Mr Musk posted that the city should prioritise protecting children from the consequences of opioid drug misuse.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b>'Office armchairs'</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Forbes broke the story of "sad little conference-room sleeping quarters at the company's recently depopulated headquarters", noting it was an apparent improvement on the improvised sleeping-bag-on-the-floor arrangement posted on Twitter by one employee.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bedrooms, Bloomberg reported, are also said to accommodate staff from Tesla and other Musk-owned businesses brought in to work at Twitter, "some of whom travel to Twitter for work meetings", sources told the publication.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Department of Building Inspection official Patrick Hannan told the San Francisco Chronicle it investigated all complaints and there were different rules for residential buildings, even those used for short-term stays.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In May 2020, before Mr Musk's takeover, Twitter told employees they could work from home "forever" if they so wished because its remote-working measures during Covid lockdowns had been a success.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last month Mr Musk said remote working would end. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>