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The policy, revealed in leaked emails Musk sent to Tesla executives on Tuesday, was first reported by the electric vehicle news site. Electrek.
“Anyone who wants to work remotely must be in the office or leave Tesla for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours a week. This is less than we ask of factory workers,” Musk wrote, adding that the office should be the employee’s primary workplace where the other workers they interact with on a regular basis are located — “no remote branch unrelated to the tasks.”
Musk said he would personally review any request for an exemption from the policy, but for the most part, “If you don’t show up, we’ll assume you’ve resigned.”
tesla (TSLA), which had 100,000 employees worldwide at the start of the year, did not respond to a request for comment on the policy change, but Musk appeared to confirm in a statement. tweet of his own early Wednesday when asked on Twitter, “Hey Elon…another comment for people who think coming to work is an outdated concept?” Musk replied, “They have to pretend they work somewhere else.” The policy is completely at odds with that of the other tech company Musk is trying to buy, Twitter (TWTR), who previously announced that employees can continue to work from home “forever” if they wish. “Where you feel most productive and creative is where you work and that includes working from home all the time”, CEO Parag Agrawal wrote in a note to Twitter’s roughly 7,500 employees in March, just before Musk’s interest in owning the social media platform became known. At Tesla, however, that will not be the case. It’s especially important that senior executives are seen in the office, Musk said, adding that this was one of the reasons he essentially lived in the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, when the company… difficulty increasing production in 2017 and 2018.
“Had I not done that, Tesla would have gone bankrupt long ago,” he wrote. “Of course there are companies that don’t need this, but when was the last time they delivered a great new product? It has been a while.”
He added: “Tesla has and will create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth,” he added. “This is not done by calling.”
Surveys show that the majority of office workers prefer to work from home. Since the reopening of offices following the Covid-19 shutdown, many companies outside of Twitter have announced more flexibility for employees looking to work remotely, in part as a way to retain or attract talent in a particularly tight job market. But the world’s richest person doesn’t seem to care about those dynamics.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of employees at Tesla. The company has 100,000 employees worldwide.