Twitter Employees Still Employed Must Pay For Lunch

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There is no such thing as a free lunch on Twitter.

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New owner Elon Musk is trying to cut costs after an expensive acquisition, and says employees he didn’t fire will have to pay for lunch.Free meals, according to the New York Post He estimates that it will cost about $17.2 million annually.

While Mr. Musk has made it mandatory for employees to return to the office, while some employers encourage employees to return to work after years, Twitter does the opposite.

On Sunday, Musk tweeted that providing free meals in his Twitter cafeteria had become unsustainable because “almost nobody came to the office.”

A Twitter employee who retired after Musk took office denied his claims hours later, saying the free meals cost only $33 per person each day.

“This is a lie. I didn’t want to work for @elonmusk, so I was running this program until I resigned a week ago,” tweeted Tracy Hawkins, Twitter’s VP of Work Transformation. .

Hawkins says the free meals “allowed employees to work through lunchtime and meetings. Office attendance was between 20% and 50%.”

“There are more people preparing breakfast than eating it,” Musk said.