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  The world’s second richest person, Elon Musk, has been adopting big “cost cutting" measures at his new office, Twitter. Reportedly, Twitter employees have begun bringing their own toilet paper to the office as Musk fired janitors. According to a report in the New York Times (NYT), Twitter has cut back on janitorial services. The lack of janitors has left the office dirty and smelly. Some employees said that "leftover takeout food and body odour" has affected the office. Musk also adopted other major cost-cutting measures. Musk reportedly also shut down one of Twitter's data centres in Sacramento, California, despite employees saying that the decision would harm Twitter's performance in the market. Reportedly, that centre kept the social networking site up and running for the long run. Musk also asked some Twitter employees to work from home in order to avoid paying rent to the Seattle building. Cleaners and security guards were also laid off at the New Y...

  The world’s richest person and Twitter's new boss, Elon Musk, has converted several rooms in the Twitter office into small sleeping quarters for employees at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, according to a report by Forbes. The sleeping quarters have unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors. One room also has bright orange carpeting, a wooden bedside table, a queen bed, and two office armchairs. According to Forbes, beds are for "hardcore" staffers who can stay and work overnight at the office. Reportedly, there are around four to eight-bedroom pods per floor. In November, Musk gave hundreds of Twitter employees an ultimatum that they work "long hours at high intensity" or leave the office. He reportedly fired at least half of Twitter's employees, and several other workers left because of the hardcore work culture. Reportedly, ever since Musk took over Twitter last month, he fired about 50 per cent...