Elon Musk Tells Tesla Executives They Should Work In The Office At Least 40hrs Per Week ‘Or Leave Tesla’

Tesla Boss; Elon Musk just told the company’s executive employees that they will be fired unless they work at least 40 hours per week in the office or leave.

In a leaked email sent to workers with the miss-spelled subject line ‘remote work is no longer acceptable’, Musk wrote that any executive worker who wants to work remotely must work in the office for at least 40 hours per week. Must be in or depart Tesla’.

He said the requirement for executive employees to work at least 40 hours in the office is ‘less than factory workers’.

Musk continued: ‘If there are particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible, I will directly review and approve those exceptions.’

Musk wrote in the email that the office “must be the main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to job duties, for example being responsible for human relations of the Fremont factory, but having your office in another state”.

Responding to a question on Twitter from a follower about whether he had a comment for ‘an old concept of people coming into work’, Musk wrote back: ‘He should be pretending to work somewhere else.’

Musk, who is currently in talks with Twitter to buy the social media giant, has previously hit out against remote work policies.

Last month, Musk took a jibe at Twitter’s loose remote work policies, saying he asked his Twitter followers if they should convert the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters into homeless shelters ‘because no one shows up.

It comes after Twitter brass – which gave employees the option to work from home ‘forever’ during the pandemic – reopened its offices on March 15, with remote work remaining in place for employees.

More than a month later, as Silicon Valley tech workers begin to filter back into the office as Covid-19 cases decline, it seems the CEO’s confidence in employees’ willingness to return to work is misplaced. Was – something new board member Musk seemed to be improving with his derisive post.

In the meantime, Twitter has issued no individual requirements for its employees – a decision Musk appears to have made in his post.