Office fan: Tesla boss Elon Musk, here at a gala in New York, no longer wants to see employees working at home.
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“How do you feel about the presence, boss?” The attacks against Elon Musk, who threatens homeworkers with eviction, show how important this question is. But it is not answered like this everywhere.
WIf this is the future industry’s ‘progressive’ view of work, then good night!” – “Elon Musk explains the trust he places in his staff: None. Tesla is less and less likely to be an attractive employer.” – “You can’t build cars in a home office. But all the IT that is in a Tesla. (…) After Musk’s statement about the home office, I would quit immediately.” The numerous comments in the short message service Twitter on the latest discussion about the topic of face-to-face work, which Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer Tesla, started, read something like this.
The company leader, who is known for his untrustworthy leadership style, had previously threatened Tesla employees with being fired if they did not return to the office from their home office. “Everyone at Tesla needs to be in the office at least 40 hours a week or they can leave Tesla,” he wrote in an email to his executives earlier in the week that later surfaced on social media. Under the subject line “working from home is no longer acceptable,” he said employees would need to return to a Tesla headquarters, not a provincial branch unrelated to the person’s duties. Tesla did not officially confirm the authenticity of the letter that was published. However, Musk himself responded on Twitter to a user who asked what he was saying to people who thought presence was an antiquated concept: “They should pretend to work somewhere else.”
