They famously shut down the free meals.
I've not been impressed by Musk, but this feels like the most boneheaded thing I've heard about his management yet.
So tax evasion?
Some go further. I believe in France employers can still give employees vouchers (in practice run over the debit card system these days) for restaurants, and this is also not deemed a benefit in kind.
A lot of this sort of thing is down to long-standing practice, really. It has long been customary for many employers to feed their staff, so this isn’t considered a benefit in kind.
"At least" would be to make some sandwiches and put them in a lunch box like millions of people do every day.
Food prep at home is cheap, but has a labor cost in time. Are employees really going to do their own food prep in the middle of 80 hour weeks?
When I prepped my own meals I was much more inclined to go home at 5pm sharp.
I changed jobs and now work as a "freelancer" (i have missions, the last one had an objective and lasted 20 months, the new one is a bit less clear). The meal is practically free for the employees, but is roughly 12€ for freelancers, and of really bad quality. So we get out with the full team (including employees), walk, or sometime take the bus to a restaurant (we change each week), eat there, then come back. It's often a bit more expensive (15 to 25€), but both the product quality and the preparation are better. Our lunch break at my previous mission lasted on average 90 minutes (we were quite far from good restaurant), on the new mission it seems to be a little less (we're closer to Paris and there is a lot of restaurant around).
Unless you overeat, and the body gets sluggish afterwards that is. ;p
That's what the vast majority of office workers do around the world, so, yes, I guess that's what the new CEO expects of the Twitter employees.
The meals still exist. They're just not free. So they still dont need to spend time thinking about food. And the company is reimbursed for it.
Obviously it's worse for the employee. But it's not some "own goal."
Evidently Twitter are expecting to serve less of them, otherwise they wouldn't be decommisioning what appears to be a commercial kitchen.
My guess is that Musk still hasn't got rid of all the staff he wants to lose. And I suspect that the ones he's already lost weren't the ones he was hoping to lose.
I smell panic.
https://www.henssler.com/employer-provided-meals-are-they-ta...
I know years ago I worked a restaurant and they accounted for the meal we got (like $3 lol) on the tax forms.