Employer seems fed up with remote work permits and wants office responsibilities returned: “Remote work is no longer acceptable”
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., in a July 2021 file photo. Musk emailed his executives to return to company offices (Bloomberg)
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The < b>richest man in the world seems to be fed up with this work from home thing.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., waded into the back-to-office debate on Twitter by explaining an email he apparently sent to executive staff at the electric carmaker on Tuesday. b>.
Under the subject “Remote work is no longer acceptable” [sic, remote work is no longer acceptable], Musk wrote that “any who wants to work remotely must be in the office a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours a week or leave Tesla. This is less than what we ask of the factory workers”.
The CEO continued to specify that the office “it must be a main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to job functions, for example being responsible for human relations at the Fremont factory, but having an office in another state.”
Although Musk did not directly address whether the email is authentic, he strongly suggested that it is when responding to a follower who asked him to address people who think it is going to work is an outdated concept. “ They should pretend they work somewhere else ,” he replied.
Elon Musk responded to a Twitter user who inquired about an email leaked in which the CEO of Tesla asked his executives to return to their office duties (Twitter)
Approximately two weeks before Musk reached an agreement to acquire Twitter Inc, Keith Rabois, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist, tweeted an anecdote about the style management of your friend. At Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Musk once observed a group of interns milling about while waiting in line for coffee.< /p>
Musk considered this an affront to productivity. According to Rabois , that he knows Musk From his days at PayPal Holdings Inc., Musk threatened to fire all 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 enable permanent remote work—are “< b>before a rude awakening”. The apparent email from Musk to the executive staff of Tesla suggests that Twitter’s policy will change once he takes over.
The reference to workers at the Tesla also interesting in light of the situation at the automaker’s plant in Shanghai.
Thousands of employees have been locked down for months , working 12-hour shifts, six days a week. Until recently, many slept on the factory floor as part of a closed-loop system meant to keep Covid out and cars off the production line.
Workers hired to bring the factory back up to speed move between the facility and their dormitories – disused factories or a former military camp – and day and night shift workers share beds in makeshift dormitories.< /p>
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