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BusinessTesla boss Elon Musk orders execs back to office for ‘minimum’ 40 hours or ‘they should pretend to work elsewhere’
Simon Thomsen - June 2, 2022 2 MIN READ
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered his company’s executives back to the office for at least 40 hours a week or they should leave the business.
In a leaked email titled “Remote work is no longer acceptble” [sic], Musk began: “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 40-hour work week became US law in 1940.
Musk said he will personally review any individual instances where the edict is “impossible” adding that they must work at “a main Tesla office, not an unrelated branch office unrelated to job duties”.
Tesla employs more than 100,000 people full-time, having increased staffing by 40% in 2021 to 99,290 employees by December 31 last year. Around 22,000 people work at the Fremont factory.
While the company has not confirmed the existence of the Musk email, the world’s richest man validated it by replying to a post of it on Twitter that asked if he had “any additional comment to people who think coming into work is an antiquated concept?”
“Pretend to work somewhere else,” Musk replied.
They should pretend to work somewhere else
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2022
An estimated 30% of US office workers continue to work from home and it has remained popular in the tech sector.
Australian tech company Canva asks its staff to only gather together four times a year, allowing them to work remotely otherwise.
A Property Council survey has found that Sydney office capacity currently sits at around 50%.
Musk had already made his views known on work-from-home during his bid to buy Twitter. While its San Francisco head office reopened in March, CEO Parag Agrawal said Twitter staff could continue to work from home by choice, saying “wherever you feel most productive and creative is where you will work”.
Musk responded to that by suggested turning the Twitter HQ into homeless shelter since no one turns up.
Simon Thomsen
Simon is editor of Startup Daily and host of the Startup Daily show, 2-2.40pm weekdays, on the business streaming service ausbiz.com.au
He was previously Associate Editor of Business Insider Australia and before that a full-time restaurant critic, editor of The Good Food Guide, and a newspaper proprietor, having spent far too long in journalism and publishing.
He's also an investor in early stage startups.
He chaired industry lobby group Australian Business Ltd's (now the NSW Business Chamber) environment committee during the Kyoto agreement era, back when mining execs were worried about cow farts.
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