Musk sticks to a belief he’s always had.
Since the early days of the Elon Musk era on Twitter, the owner and CEO has taken an uncompromising position on one of his workers’ expectations.
And he reiterated that demand in a late-night message to employees on March 22.
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“Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email at 2:30am saying ‘the office is not optional’ and noted that SF was half empty yesterday,” wrote Zoë Schiffer, Platformer’s managing editor, as part of a post. Tweet.
The mandate for office work should come as no surprise, even if the timing of the announcement seems strange.
Shortly after taking over the social media microblogging company on October 27, 2022, Musk announced to employees that he would stop working remotely due to “tough times ahead.”
At the time, he said he expected employees to work from the office 40 hours per week, and any exceptions should have been approved by him.
Musk’s predecessors had previously said, during the covid pandemic, that employees could work from anywhere.
“The last few months have shown that we can make that work. So if our employees are in a role and situation that allows them to work from home and they want to keep doing it forever, we will make that happen,” Twitter said. in May 2020.
Long before he bought Twitter, Musk had already gone on record about his opposition to working from home.
“All the covid stay-at-home stuff has fooled people into thinking there’s actually no need to work hard. Rude awakening incoming!” posted on Twitter on May 26, 2022.
He asked for his Tesla (TSLA) – Get a free reportemployees to return to the office next month.
“Everyone at Tesla must spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,” he wrote at the time in an email to employees. “If he doesn’t show up, we’ll assume he’s resigned.”
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