Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On the evening of November 14, Beijing time, it was reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk) was considering new cost-cutting measures, planning to cancel the free lunch at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters and let employees pay for it instead.

It was reported on Friday that Musk planned to make Twitter employees pay for lunch in the company's cafeteria. Musk pushed the topic to the forefront again on Sunday, local time. He tweeted that in the past 12 months, the cost of each lunch is expected to exceed $400, bringing the annual catering service cost of the San Francisco headquarters to about $13 million (about 92.43 million yuan).

"it's really strange considering that few people come to the office (working from home during the outbreak)," Musk wrote on Twitter. "

Musk's comments drew strong opposition from Tracy Hawkins, a former Twitter employee. Hawkins was a former vice president of work transformation on Twitter, in charge of the free lunch program at Twitter headquarters. In fact, meals cost about $20 to $25 per person per day, Hawkins said.

In addition, Hawkins and Musk disagree on employee occupancy rates (when employees come to the company). Mr Musk says the highest occupancy rate for employees is 25 per cent, while the average occupancy rate is less than 10 per cent. Hawkins questioned the figures, saying office occupancy was between 20% and 50%.

At the same time, Twitter users also joined the discussion on this topic. Some say Mr Musk is undermining Twitter's work culture, while others criticize Twitter's free lunch plan, saying the lunches are a privilege rather than a normal right.

As he considered canceling the free lunch, Musk wrote to Twitter employees a few days ago that the company would cancel telecommuting and that employees would have to work at least 40 hours a week in the office.

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