In an email sent to Tesla employees in May, Elon Musk stated that they must be present in the office 40 hours per week or leave the company.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has come under fire for imposing a back-to-office mandate on his employees.
In an email sent to Tesla employees in May, Elon Musk stated that they must be present in the office 40 hours per week or leave the company.
It didn’t take long for people to wonder if Tesla’s self-driving cars would force workers to go to work.
On June 7, the satirical website The Babylon Bee published a spoof article imagining Musk’s email to employees in this regard.
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Musk responded to the article in his trademark cheeky manner.
“My diabolical plan is coming together!” he exclaimed.
In executive circles, Musk’s return to the office has been dubbed “tone deaf.”
According to Paul McKinlay, an executive at the Irish printing company Cimpress and Vista, “what Musk fails to see or acknowledge is that working remotely has been proven to improve people’s quality of life — and teams’ productivity.”
Return-to-office mandates, according to Tony Jamous, founder of remote company Oyster, could result in organizations losing talented employees looking for work flexibility.
Another executive agreed.
“Elon Musk’s requirement that employees return to the office full-time is a risky talent strategy because it will almost certainly result in many employees leaving for more flexible jobs,” Topia HR Consultant Steve Black
