Elon Musk Demands Tesla Workers Return to Office in Leaked Emails: ‘If You Don’t Show Up, We Will Assume You Have Resigned’
variety.comWilson Chapman editorElon Musk is demanding that Tesla employees cease remote work or be fired, in two emails sent to staff of the electric car company on Tuesday.In the emails, which were leaked to electric car news website Electrek, Musk stated that all employees must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week or depart the company.
He also wrote that he will review potential exceptions directly, but only for “particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible.”Musk reiterated the statement in a follow-up email, specifying that the office must be a main Tesla office and not an off-shoot location. “If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned,” reads the memo.
Musk also took digs at similar companies that continue to allow work from home. “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,” he wrote.Although Musk has not made an official public statement regarding Tesla’s work from home policy, he appeared to confirm the news on Twitter Wednesday morning.
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