Elon Musk’s Sweet Warning To Tesla Employees

Elon Musk asks the Tesla employees to stop working from remote locations in the recent emails. The Tesla boss tells the employees to return to the office or else ‘quit’!

Elon Musk allowed his employees to work remotely for every role since 2019 due to Covid-19 and he says it is time to get back offices.

In the emails that have been going viral, Elon Musk issued a sweet warning to his employees that if they don’t show up, he will assume they have resigned.

In a series of emails sent yesterday, Elon Musk reportedly mentioned ‘Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers.’

The excerpts of the two emails from Elon have been going viral since yesterday, and the headlines of those mails are ‘Remote work is no longer acceptable’ and ‘To be super clear.’

The first email reads

Subject: 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.

If there are particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible, I will review and approve those exceptions directly.

Moreover, the “office” must be a main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties, for example being responsible for Fremont factory human relations, but having your office be in another state.

Thanks,
Elon

And the second one..

Subject: To be super clear

Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week. Moreover, the office must be where your actual colleagues are located, not some remote pseudo office. If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.

The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence. 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.

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.

Thanks,
Elon