Elon Musk is sick and tired of all the white-collar workers who have for two years used Covid as an excuse to work from home, not go into the office, and shirk responsibility.
And the Tesla boss has let his employees know in no uncertain terms that he's ready for them to get back to work.
From Bloomberg:
The world's richest man appears to have had it with this whole working-from-home business.
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., waded into the return-to-office debate on Twitter by elaborating on an email he apparently sent Tuesday to the electric-car maker's executive staff.
Under the subject line "Remote work is no longer acceptble" [sic], Musk wrote that "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."
The CEO went on to specify that the office "must be a main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties, for example being responsible for Fremont factory human relations, but having your office be in another state."
Good on Elon for holding his high-level executives to the same standard as everyone else.
Look at these glorious emails. Dude doesn't beat around the bush:
SUBJECT: TO BE SUPER CLEAR
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I know, I know, it's possible to get work done at home.
But Elon knows that some people, if not most, will take advantage of the work-from-home model in order to slack off.
When asked about the leaked email, Musk had the best response.
Sorry Millennials, sorry Zoomers. Elon is the boss and he gets to decide what his policies are.
And Elon's "come to the office" policy is likely to have Twitter employees shaking in their boots.
Roughly two weeks before Musk reached a deal to acquire Twitter Inc., Keith Rabois, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and entrepreneur, tweeted an anecdote that speaks to his friend's management style. At Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Musk once noticed a group of interns milling around while they waited in a line for coffee.
Musk viewed this as an affront to productivity. According to Rabois, who knows Musk from their days at PayPal Holdings Inc., Musk threatened to fire all the interns if it happened again, and had security cameras installed to monitor compliance.
Rabois wrote in April that employees at Twitter -- one of the most prominent companies to allow permanent remote work -- are "in for a rude awakening." Musk's apparent email to Tesla's executive staff suggests Twitter's policy will change once he takes over.
Elon Musk is a man of unreal productivity. He demands a lot of himself and he's successful because he expects hard work from his employees as well.
It's good to see someone dedicated to hard work nowadays instead of just doing enough to get by.
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