CEO Tesla, Elon Musk instructs employees to resign or stop working at the company if they do not want to work from the office.
Musk asks employees to stop working from home or Work From Home (WFH). Elon Musk’s order was clearly written in an internal email he sent to Tesla executive staff on Tuesday (31/5) which was later leaked to the public.
According to Musk, employees must work from offices not from places that have nothing to do with their mandatory duties as Tesla employees. This is done so that interactions between employees can be established on a regular basis.
The billionaire who is also the owner of SpaceX even said that he would directly supervise the policy. If a Tesla employee doesn’t follow the rules of working from the office, Musk said it would be tantamount to resigning.
“Anyone who wants to do remote work must be in the office at least 40 hours per week or leave Tesla,” Musk said in a leaked email quoted by CNN.
The WFH policy had become an option when the Covid-19 pandemic was spreading for the last two years. Even when many companies end up opting for hybrid work systems, Musk doesn’t seem to care about the change.
However, the work-from-office system that Musk has emphasized for his employees at Tesla doesn’t apply to Twitter, the tech company that is in the process of buying it. The social media platform with the blue bird logo actually gives employees the freedom to work from outside the office.
“Wherever you feel most productive and creative is where you will work, and that includes working from home full time forever,” CEO Parag Agrawal tells employees, March 2022.
Meanwhile, the IG Metall union in Berlin-Brandenburg-Sachsen, where Tesla’s factory is located, rejected Elon Musk’s orders. They support every employee who opposes Musk’s ultimatum.
“Anyone who doesn’t agree with such a unilateral claim and wants to oppose it has union power behind them in Germany, according to the law,” said Birgit Dietze, district leader for IG Metall in Berlin-Brandenburg-Sachsen. 6).
(ttf / mik)
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