'Remote work is no longer acceptable'

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: May 31, 2022
To:: Tesla executive staff (per press reports)
Subject:: Remote work is no longer acceptble

Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers. If there are particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible, I will review and approve those exceptions directly. Moreover, the "office" must be 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. Thanks, Elon

About this email

Musk tells Tesla staff that anyone wishing to work remotely must first be in a main Tesla office at least 40 hours a week or leave the company, with exceptions approved only by him.

Notes

The subject line's typo ('acceptble') is in the original. The email leaked on Twitter and Musk effectively confirmed it there ('They should pretend to work somewhere else'). Bloomberg and others reported it was addressed to executive staff ('ExecStaff'); the recipient line is not shown in the text retrieved.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution confirmed.

Electrek

Tesla, executive & internal. Tags: remote-work, return-to-office, policy

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