As I have highlighted in yesterday’s post “The Quandary Between Returning to the Office and Home-working”, employees at many companies, used to working from home or hybrid policies, are allegedly rebelling against “RTO” policies and long commutes.
“Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week”, Musk wrote in an email titled “To be super clear”. “Moreover, the office must be where your actual colleagues are located, not some remote pseudo office. If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned”.
Bloomberg News confirmed that current Tesla employees received the email Wednesday morning.
“The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence”, Musk wrote. “That is why I lived in the factory so much – so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt”.
In recent weeks, Musk has praised Tesla China employees for “burning the 3 am oil” while saying that Americans are “trying to avoid going to work at all”.
Thousands of Tesla staff in Shanghai have been effectively locked in for months, working 12-hour shifts, six days a week. Until recently, many were sleeping on the factory floor as part of a closed-loop system meant to keep Covid out and cars rolling off the production line.
Workers brought in to bring the factory back up to speed are being shuttled between the facility and sleeping quarters – either unused factories or an old military camp – with day- and night-shift workers sharing beds in makeshift dorms.
When a fan on Twitter asked Musk to address people who think going into work is an antiquated concept, he replied “They should pretend to work somewhere else”.
For Elon Musk, there's no two ways about it!
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