[boeingUH60]

I think Musk is mistaken or intentionally misrepresenting...the idea is that Twitter has a $13 million-per-year contract with its food vendor. But, due to the Covid pandemic and the acceleration of remote work, many employees have stopped coming to the office and taking advantage of the free meals...so, he's dividing the total contract value by the average number of employees now badging in at the office instead of the total number of employees during normal times.

[mrtksn]

Okay, Twitter originally had 7500 full time employees. There are 260 workdays in a year and let's say %10 of those show up in the office as Musk says and 2 meals a day are served.

So this works out as (13000000/(7500* 0.1 * 2 *260)) ~= $33 a meal. How to get this to $400 a meal? That's more than order of magnitude difference. 13M at $400 a meal buys you 32500 meals and this is 125 meals a day served. 125 meals a day feeds ~60 employees only. Are there 60 employees in the offices of Twitter? Considering that Twitter is not a bank branch and the occupancy is not for only 260 days but for 365 and they don't close after 5PM, the number of people who can be at the office for the $400 meals must be considerably lower - something like 22 people at the office at a time on average(32500/(365*4)).

Can anyone with info on the Twitter HQ occupancy can confirm that there are about 22 people at the office at the same time?

[Shamu]

The approximate 7500 figure is the total headcount of ALL twitter employees (not sure if this figure is global or USA only).

According to recent articles, twitter laid off around 7-800 employees from its SF office. If we go by the reports that Musk laid off ~50% of the employees, that approximates around 1500 employees at the SF office. 10% showing up would give us 150 showing up daily.

[mrtksn]

Even then It still doesn't add up. Are those employees not liking the $400 and eating mostly outside? Or fasting maybe?