Tesla boss Elon Musk (archive photo) Photo: /FW1F/Maju Samuel
From BZ/Reuters
Tesla boss Elon Musk orders his employees back to the office. “Everyone at Tesla has to spend at least 40 hours a week in the office,” Musk wrote in an email to employees of the US electric car maker on Tuesday evening, obtained by Reuters.
“If someone doesn’t show up, we have to assume that person has left the company.” Two Tesla insiders confirmed the authenticity of the email. Tesla itself did not respond to a request for comment.
In the face of rising corona infections in California, some employees of tech companies are refusing to return to the office.
Musk reopened his plant in Fremont, California, in May 2020 against the current corona restrictions. From May to December 2020, 440 infections were reported among Tesla employees, according to data from the authorities, at SpaceX there were 132 corona cases last year.
Tech companies are dealing with the return to the office differently: Google parent Alphabet, for example, relies on face-to-face meetings between employees.
Twitter boss Parag Agrawal, on the other hand, wrote in March that the offices were open again, but that employees had the freedom of choice: “Wherever you feel most productive and creative, that’s where you’ll work and that’s closing permanent home office.” Musk wants to take over Twitter for $44 billion.
