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Thursday, June 2, 2022

Elon Musk tells Tesla staff: return to office or leave

Tesla Inc chief executive Elon Musk has asked employees to return to office or leave the company, according to an email sent to employees.

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"Everyone at Tesla needs to spend at least 40 hours in office a week," Musk wrote in an email sent to Tuesday night.

"If you don't come we will assume you have resigned."

Musk wrote: "As you grow older, your presence should be more evident," Musk wrote. , Tesla would have long since collapsed. ”

Two sources have verified the authenticity of the updated email. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

The major technology firms in Silicon Valley do not require staff to return to office full-time, where they face protests against certain employees and the resumption of coronavirus cases in California.

Tesla has relocated its headquarters to Austin, Texas, but has its own engineering base and one of its factories in the San Francisco Bay area.

"Yes there are companies that don't need this, but when did they last post a great new product? It's been a long time," Musk wrote in an email.

"Tesla has and will create and actually produce the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth. This will not happen by calling it."

One of Musk's followers on Twitter sent another email Musk apparently sent to management asking them to work in the office for at least 40 hours a week or "leave Tesla."

Responding to the tweet, the millionaire, who has agreed to take Twitter Inc in a $ 44 billion deal, said, "They should pretend they are working elsewhere."

Some Tesla employees have expressed dissatisfaction with Musk's recent comments in texts they posted on Blind's anonymous operating system, which requires users to register using company email as proof of employment in factories.

"If there is a mass exodus, how will Tesla finish the projects? I don't think investors would be happy about that," wrote another Tesla employee.

"We are waiting for him to resign immediately," wrote another employee.

A California-based workers' union has attacked Musk's return to office.

"Employers, including the government of the country, find that authorizing the return of all employees is a form of disease outbreak," Stephen Knight, chief executive officer of Workssafe, wrote in an email.

"Unfortunately Tesla's negligence in the safety of workers has been well documented, including their underestimation by the public health department at the beginning of the epidemic," he wrote.

In May 2020, Musk reopened the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, in defiance of Alameda County closure measures to curb the spread of coronavirus. Tesla reported 440 factory cases from May to December 2020, according to regional data obtained by the legal website Plainsite.

Last year, Musk rocket company SpaceX reported 132 cases of COVID-19 at its headquarters in downtown Los Angeles in Hawthorne, according to regional data.

Musk had previously downplayed the dangers of coronavirus, claiming that "coronavirus fear is dumb" and that children were "safe" from coronavirus. He later received COVID-19 twice.

Musk said last month, "Americans are trying to avoid going to work," and Chinese workers "will not leave even the factory type."

"They will be burning oil 3 times in the morning," he said at the conference.

The Tesla factory in Shanghai has been working hard to boost production following the closure of China's economic zone which forced the factory to close for 22 days.

While some senior employers have adopted voluntary home-based volunteer policies, others, including Alphabet Inc's Google, are asking employees to return to office gradually.

The alphabet requires employees to be in office for at least three days a week from the beginning of April, but most employees are authorized for full-time work.

Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal wrote on Twitter in March that Twitter offices would be reopened but staff could still work at home if they wished.