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• In an email, Musk said employees must show up for at least 40 hours per week
• Musk later said on Twitter, ‘They should pretend to work somewhere else’
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) Chief Executive Elon Musk has asked employees to return to the office or leave the company.
An internal email from Musk is circulating on Twitter with the subject line saying, “Remote work is no longer acceptable.”
“Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers,” Musk wrote.
In another email to “Everyone” and with the subject line “To be super clear”, Musk said, “If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.”
He also asked the employees with higher positions to be more visible in terms of presence in the office. “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.”
“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,” the email read.
“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.”
Musk neither accepted nor denied the emails in response to a tweet with a leaked email requesting the billionaire for a comment.
“They should pretend to work somewhere else,” Musk tweeted.
In May 2020, Musk reopened a Tesla factory in Fremont, California, defying local lockdown measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, and reported 440 COVID-19 cases at the factory till December 2020.
Last year, SpaceX reported 132 cases at its headquarters in the Los Angeles-area city of Hawthorne.
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