Is Elon Musk preparing to replace Twitter janitors with robots? That’s what one man who was just fired is saying

Key Facts

• The Tesla billionaire cut nearly 50% of workers last month, and followed that up with a middle-of-the-night email asking the remaining employees whether they wanted to leave the company, or commit to an “extremely hardcore” work culture.
• This week, janitors who were contracted to work at Twitter headquarters through a company called Flagship joined a picket line in front of the building, saying their contract with the company was not renegotiated.
• Julio Alvarado, a janitor who said he was fired on Monday after working at Twitter offices for 10 years, told the BBC that someone from Musk’s team told him that eventually his job would no longer exist because robots would replace human cleaners.
• The idea of robots as cleaners isn’t necessarily new—just look at Roombas—the robot vacuums in many homes that have replaced traditional brooms and vacuum cleaners.

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