Tesla workers ordered to return to work by Musk or face the sack

Tesla boss Elon Musk has ordered staff to return to the office full-time, threatening them with the sack.

Elon Musk ordered staff to return to the office full time, saying that working remotely is no longer acceptable.

His new policy was leaked to social media.

When asked about the policy, Musk said: “People who are unwilling to abide by the new rules can “pretend to work somewhere else”.

In the email to staff, Musk says:

“Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week.”

“If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.”

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The emails say staff should report to work at one of the company’s main offices, “not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties”. 

Mr Musk says working in the office full-time was what the company asks of its factory employees.

“There are of course companies that don’t require this, but when was the last time they shipped a great new product? It’s been a while,” he said in an email, one of two that was leaked and shared on social media.

“Tesla has and will create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth. This will not happen by phoning it in.”

It’s been a huge issue for many companies across multiple industries – whether or not to allow remote work practices to continue post-pandemic.

‘I lived in the factory’

“The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence,” he wrote in one of the emails on the remote work policy.

“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.”