Tesla employees ‘should pretend to work somewhere else’ if they don’t want to return to their offices, CEO Elon Musk says tweeted Wednesday.
Why is this important: Many companies across the country have adopted remote work policies, while others are pushing for employees to return to the office.
Driving the news: “Anyone who wants to work remotely must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or leave Tesla. That’s less than what we’re asking of factory workers,” Musk wrote in a leaked memo to staff, according to Bloomberg.
- Office workers must work at “a main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to work duties,” Musk allegedly wrote in the memo, which TSTIME has not independently verified.
- As an example, he said someone “responsible for human relations at the Fremont plant” shouldn’t have “your office in another state.”
- Musk will “review and approve” any situations where employees cannot meet minimum hours, Reuters reports.
The plot: Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter, which currently has a different remote work policy.
- Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter said in March that the Twitter office would open, but employees can still work remotely if they choose.
- “It’s where you’ll feel most productive and creative that you’ll be working, and that includes working from home full-time forever,” Agrawal tweeted.
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