Elon Musk the Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc. yesterday sent an email to ‘Everybody’ at his electric-car company, amplifying an earlier missive to executive staff about the need to be in the office.
Africa Today News, New York understands that employees at numerous companies, before now were used to working from home or hybrid policies, have revolted against ‘RTO’ policies and long commutes a few months ago.
‘Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,’ Musk wrote in an email titled ‘To be super clear.’
‘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’ he added.
Africa Today News, New York confirmed that virtually all current Tesla employees received the email Thursday morning.
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‘The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence,’ Musk wrote. ‘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.’
Earlier, Musk sent an email to executive staff requiring that they be in ‘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.
In recent weeks, Musk has praised Tesla China employees for ‘burning the 3 am oil’ while saying that Americans are “trying to avoid going to work at all.’
Thousands of Tesla staff in Shanghai have been effectively locked in for months, working 12-hour shifts, six days a week. Until recently, many were sleeping on the factory floor as part of a closed-loop system meant to keep Covid out and cars rolling off the production line.
Workers brought in to bring the factory back up to speed are being shuttled between the facility and sleeping quarters — either unused factories or an old military camp — with day- and night-shift workers sharing beds in makeshift dorms.