Elon Emails

2:30 a.m. email: 'office is not optional'

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
March 22, 2023 (Sent about 2:30 a.m. on a Wednesday; Business Insider/Yahoo give Wednesday March 22-23, 2023)
To:
Twitter employees

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

office is not optional [...] was half empty yesterday

About this email

In an email sent around 2:30 a.m., Musk reminds Twitter staff that working from the office is not optional and notes the San Francisco office had been half empty the day before.

Notes

Known only from a tweet by Platformer's Zoe Schiffer; just these fragments were quoted. The retrieved Yahoo page gave the date as Wednesday March 23, 2023, but March 22 was the Wednesday of that week.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

Twitter/X, company-wide memo. Tags: return-to-office, remote-work, work-ethic

Earlier emailSearch all emailsLater email