Once again, Twitter CEO Elon Musk's brilliant ideas have led to embarrassment. This time, the impact was seen by staff at the company's Singapore headquarters, who were reportedly dragged out of the building by landlords for non-payment of rent.
According to Bloomberg, Twitter staff were instructed to vacate the company's 22,000-square-foot office in the CapitaGreen building in Singapore, which has functioned as its Asia-Pacific headquarters since 2015, before 5 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the Platformer newsletter, Twitter employees were evicted by the building's landlords because the firm had not paid rent, a tactic that Musk has also been utilizing in San Francisco and Seattle. Insider said that Musk paid the outstanding rent late Wednesday Pacific Time and that staff were told to return to the workplace.
As a result of Musk's recent layoffs, the Singapore office staff were directed to begin working remotely beginning Thursday. According to Bloomberg, the personnel have been categorized as remote employees until further notice under Twitter's internal system.
Gizmodo reached out to CapitaLand, the real estate firm in charge of the CapitaGreen building, for comment on Thursday morning but did not hear back by the time of publishing. Twitter no longer has a communications department to contact for comment.
Refusing to pay rent—and then getting Twitter sued for doing so—is just another of billionaire’s contentious and questionable cost-saving measures at Twitter. Additionally, the billionaire has fired the company's janitors, requiring staff to carry their own toilet paper to Twitter's smelly headquarters, and has shutdown one of the company's data centers in Sacramento. The New York Times reports that Musk has told Twitter staff to halt payments to contractors and vendors in an effort to reduce the company's unpaid liabilities.
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