Elon Musk Demands Tesla Workers Return
to Office in Leaked Emails: ‘If You
Don’t Show Up, We Will Assume You Have Resigned’
Variety,
by
Wilson Chapman
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/2/2022 7:30:26 AM
Elon 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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner 6/2/2022 7:36:46 AM (No. 1173367)
People who leak things that supposedly are private, never do so with good intentions.
All these leftists now have to postpone their trips to Mars.
18 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 6/2/2022 7:47:37 AM (No. 1173375)
Wow. With an attitude like that, it's no wonder he's so rich.
Elon Musk for POTUS.
22 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/2/2022 7:51:17 AM (No. 1173383)
It's time people went back to work.
Musk is right.
Get back to work or hit the road.
42 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/2/2022 7:52:41 AM (No. 1173385)
Now you have to show up to be paid?
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Depends. Last year I spoke to a woman who worked as accounts receivable for an agriculture-based company. Everyone was working from home because of covid. The boss noticed it was a MUCH more productive company with people working from home.
And in most instances, that is probably the case. The problem comes from having a lease on an office building you can't get out of, even as you realize you don't need it.
Or worse, you aren't leasing, but instead had a new office purpose-built.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mobyclik 6/2/2022 8:31:15 AM (No. 1173424)
The mindset of todays spoiled little liberals:
''Just WHO does the owner of this company I work for think he is telling ME what I have to do to keep my job?''
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/2/2022 8:31:53 AM (No. 1173425)
Tech people of my day could work from home and be very productive without bothersome phone calls and endless meetings. I'm not sure that most of the tech weenies of today can put in a full day's work, even while in the office.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 6/2/2022 8:35:35 AM (No. 1173435)
While I do believe working from home has advantages, I can see Elon's point. A technology company must keep up with technology. This is more difficult if you are working from home, isolated from parts of the company. That being said, I suspect Elon looked at his payroll, compared it to the amount of work being done, and wants to get rid of the deadwood.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 6/2/2022 8:36:06 AM (No. 1173436)
Well maybe for what Musk does, it works to have people in the office. But I echo what #5 says: a LOT of companies have found out that people are far more productive when they are able to manage home life better via remote ESPECIALLY when the work you do is via the internet and computrr communication anyway. why should I sit in an office on the other side of town only to be doing my meetings through Teams anyway and have to spend gas and money for those things like food and necessities in a not too accomodating location when I have them at hand at home? And when the proof of my work is through what I produce daily is via the computer anyway why do I need to endure hall monitor bosses? Musk may have things that he needs a presence for but he is tone deaf to the way things have adapted.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/2/2022 8:58:56 AM (No. 1173458)
Oh my! I can hear the crescendo of butt-hurt. For sure, Elon will discover who the valuable employees are very soon. I can see the potential for 10-20% of his non-factory line workers leaving. These children are very, very sensitive to the slightest reprimand. With this memo, he might as well have gutted them with a dull knife.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/2/2022 9:08:49 AM (No. 1173478)
Liking this guy more all the time.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/2/2022 9:34:13 AM (No. 1173517)
Some industries require close interaction among workers, but not all. Many companies figured out their corporate "footprint" gets a LOT smaller when employees work remote, so the smart ones are looking to not renew leases and to even sell buildings they own to generate cash AND to drop financial obligations, such as taxes, utilities, and insurance. At the same time employees get a morale boost. Technology today allows most white collar workers to work remote. Elon is apparently "old school" in his management style. It takes a huge leap of faith to allow employees to work remote.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/2/2022 9:40:50 AM (No. 1173529)
Sending a message to the Twitter people via Tesla.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 6/2/2022 9:43:59 AM (No. 1173537)
I love being in the office when all the young un's are working from home. For me it's much more productive because I don't have to listen to their yakking in the hallways, plus my wife doesn't expect me to be on-call as I am when working in the den. The work/home separation is a very good thing for me.
But I don't know how much longer my company can sustain the cost of utilities to maintain a building that is not fully occupied.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Avikingman 6/2/2022 9:48:21 AM (No. 1173546)
I suspect fake leakage from tech savvy Mr. Musk.
I like this guy and wish his companies great success.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/2/2022 9:52:11 AM (No. 1173552)
I’m really starting to like this guy.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/2/2022 10:48:41 AM (No. 1173616)
It's about time we ALL went back to the office and work. Unless of course you're retired.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 6/2/2022 11:43:41 AM (No. 1173679)
#5, Unintended consequences. I, like many, thought the sending of workers home would be economically devastating for many companies. I was wrong, many studies have shown that worker productivity is at worst unimpacted and often much higher.
So, unintended consequence? I was in Chicago last summer eating dinner at the Yacht club on the lake looking at the huge Chicago skyline. All of those office buildings were mostly empty. Then I realized what could really happen with this trend. Large companies have leased multiple floors of these buildings at huge financial cost. They now need only a portion of that and by dropping those costs, while maintaining worker productivity, they can recapture that cost as profit. Look for many companies dropping their leases when they expire. Office space, already a glut in some markets is going to be left empty, that which remains will have to cut rates to compete. Workers who live outside the city will not be commuting into thecity, their work address will no longer be in the city and they will no longer be subject to city income tax. The buildings will not generate the tax income they used toand companies will also cut a lot of the support staff, because the worker at home will actually be doing their job as well. City business' catering to the day traffic of office workers will suffer. Many will fold further decreasing the tax base. Office furnitur suppliers, office designers, copy machine sales, etc. etc. etc. will aslo suffer. The ripple effects will be enourmous.
Cities could be in big trouble due to this. A seismic change in metropolitan funding is coming. Those who want to escape the cities costs and crime and crowds can now do so without financial penalty. Those who cannot will become an even bigger drain on the shrinking tax base. This is a death spiral, and a huge challenge for the entire country.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 6/2/2022 12:54:50 PM (No. 1173778)
#18, yes. I am aware of the consequences, unintended or not. Recently, the NYC Mayor was trying to push businesses to call their employees back to the office "So we can all grow together."
In other words, we need people to spend large portions of their personal time commuting. Paying for monthly parking spaces. Buying bus and subway tickets and yada, yada...
When internet technology has basically turned all of that into "broken window economic theory". You know, the false belief that a brick through a window is actually a good thing because it sparks economic activity.
Sure, it is a challenge. But I confess it is a challenge I am going to enjoy watching these big Democrat cities fail to overcome.
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With all due respect, #5, decisions about how and where workers do their jobs is up to the ones who sign their paychecks and are accountable for the success of the company.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/2/2022 3:37:05 PM (No. 1173950)
This should be interesting...Boss says come back to work...I'm sure all the Snowflake Lefties will be hatching Cows come tomorrow to claim maternity leave!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Faithfully 6/2/2022 10:02:00 PM (No. 1174311)
Good for him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/3/2022 2:09:35 AM (No. 1174441)
I've worked remotely since 2008. My home is my office, and I have to work at making sure my home is my home instead. We work like dogs from home. Elon probably has a lot of unproductive slackers. It's easy to "do other things" when working from home unless you have tons of work to do. He could probably downsize significantly.
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