Tesla Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Is So Done With Remote Work

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has released an order to staff to return to the office full-time, announcing that working remotely is no longer acceptable.

BBC News reported that the new policy was shared in emails that were leaked to social media.

Tesla did not address the issue, while Musk tweeted on social media platform Twitter that people who are unwilling to follow the new rules can "pretend to work somewhere else."

Musk reportedly wrote in one of the meals that everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week.

He added that employees who failed to show up will be assumed that they have resigned.

Musk noted that he would personally review any requests for exemptions from the policy.

The billionaire said that working in the office full-time was what the company asks of its factory employees, adding that in-person collaboration was much needed for the firm's success.

Musk said in an email that there are companies that do not require employees to return to the office. However, he added that it has been a while since they shipped a "great new product."

Elon Musk to Tesla Workers

One Tesla worker who spoke to Washington Post noted that some groups of employees are still seen to continue to be exempted from returning to the office.

Two Tesla workers said at the time that they received termination notices claiming that they had failed to return to work after they chose to take unpaid leave in May 2020.

Musk's companies are known for rigid, process-based workplaces, with the entrepreneur pushing back against shelter-in-place orders in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, his company told employees they could stay at home if they felt uneasy.

Musk called on the managers to get back to the office 40 hours a week in his email to Tesla executives.

He noted that it is "less than we ask of factory workers."

Return-To-Office Companies

About 50 percent of industry leaders say their company already requires or is planning to require employees to return to in-person work full-time next year, according to a CNBC News report.

New research from Microsoft noted that 52 percent of workers said they are thinking of switching to a full-time remote or hybrid job in 2022.

Elise Freedman, a workforce transformation practice leader at Korn Ferry, said that a lot of business leaders have told her that they do not believe in hybrid work, adding that it has no place in their culture.

Freedman added that companies who want a full return of their employees to the office could face serious consequences once employees do not get the kind of flexibility they are asking for.

She noted that workers will just leave.

The workforce practice leader said that companies need to think through what exactly they want to accomplish by bringing people back and being transparent with their employees.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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