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CEO Elon Musk informed his Tesla employees on Tuesday that they need to be back in the main office working at least 40 hours a week or they can head for greener pastures and “pretend to work somewhere else.”
Two blunt emails were leaked on Twitter with the first one putting employees on notice: “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers.”
“If there are particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible, I will review and approve those exceptions directly,” Musk reportedly noted. “Moreover, the ‘office’ must be a main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties.”
One Twitter user asked Musk to respond to Tesla employees who consider working in-person to be an “antiquated concept.”
The billionaire tersely replied, “They should pretend to work somewhere else.”
They should pretend to work somewhere else
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2022
“Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week. Moreover, the office must be where your actual colleagues are located, not some remote pseudo office. If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.,” Musk reportedly wrote in a second email, according to electrek.
“The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence. That is why I lived in the factory so much – so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt,” he added, the outlet reported.
“There are of course companies that don’t require this, but when was the last time they shipped a great new product? It’s been a while,” Musk noted.
“Tesla has and will create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth. This will not happen by phoning it in,” the CEO asserted.
Many high-tech companies are now allowing employees to work remotely permanently. Airbnb and Facebook see it as a perk for employees and a way to attract talent.
Meta executive Dare Obasanjo took a swipe at Musk’s mandate on Twitter Wednesday.
“A forced return to office policy during a renewed COVID surge sounds like a great way to create some attrition without the negative optics of a layoff,” Obasanjo, the lead product manager for Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse team, tweeted.
https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1531961280218529792
Other companies such as Apple and Google are promoting hybrid schedules where employees come into the office three days a week and work the rest of the time remotely.
Apple is also extending the work-at-home schedule because of a surge in COVID cases. That announcement follows employees threatening to quit if they have to come back to the office to work, according to the New York Post.
Musk mocked Apple’s decision to extend work-at-home schedules with a meme of an obese dog taking a nap.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022
Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, and will soon potentially take the helm of Twitter. The social media platform was among the first big tech companies to let employees work from home permanently. As Musk steps in, that will allegedly change.
Twitter employees have slammed Musk’s attitude toward remote working on the corporate forum Blind. They are terrified he will impose a similarly strict policy of working 40 hours a week at the main office.
“Most companies at least set a return day a couple months out to let employees prepare,” one Twitter employee complained in response to Musk putting his foot down over remote work. “Who just suddenly makes massive changes to an orgs work life with no warning.”
Another Twitter employee asked in April whether Musk would “rule” with an “iron fist” at Twitter. He predicted that forcing a return to working at the office would cause “even more attrition.”
This isn’t the first time Musk has made fun of Twitter employees who work remotely. In April he wrote that the company should turn its San Francisco headquarters into a homeless shelter because so few employees showed up at the office.
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11 thoughts on “Musk tells Tesla employees to get their butts back to office or they can ‘pretend to work somewhere else’”
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So, why are you posting here and trying to brag to us about it…? Obviously, something’s not right with your story, or you wouldn’t be spamming comment sections with something that has nothing to do with the articles even remotely…
Employees threatening to quit if they have to actually go to work should have been the trigger for automatic pink slips to have been sent out. “Refusal to work” is always a valid reason for firing someone… even if they are replaced first and fired a month or two later.
Yes, I’m certain they will be back in their office the next day, they are not smart enough to be an entrepreneur, can only work for someone who has the brains and ingenuity. Of course there is the money thing. LOL😂
The employees are more than not democrats who voted for the brain dead Biden.
call him BBB (Brain Broke Biden)
A truly novel idea from Mr. Musk: to get paid, one must actually work hard. Good luck having this happen, Elon!
There is no requirement that people work “hard” in order to get paid… just that they actually show up and work… something which they’ve grown accustomed to not doing as a result of nearly 2 years of our Government’s overreach, tyranny, and bad decisions which destroyed our economy, and which we still are suffering the effects of, like this, and have not recovered from…
Thanks to Elon. Well said. Hopefully some lazy a$$es will get canned.
People giving the virus as a reason for wanting to continue is just getting silly. More people died from the lockdowns, and I never had a problem working in person during the “pandemic” (after I finally got hired). I’m sure I’m not so much braver than the average person…
That’s the way to run a company,,,,if you can’t be bothered to show up at work,I’m too busy to sign your paycheck,,,period,,,,,,FJB,,,,,,
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I’m quite surprised to see remote employees (neighbors) working remotely with tasks of mowing the yard, grocery shopping, walking the dog, playing a few holes of golf, etc. Funny, I guess I’m dumb because it took all my time to complete projects on time. At times completing them on time increased my work load.