The world’s richest man appears to have had it with this whole working-from-home business.
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla, weighed in on the return-to-office debate Wednesday on Twitter by elaborating on an email he apparently sent to the electric-car maker’s executive staff.
He went on to write that 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." Roughly two weeks before Musk prevailed in his attempt to strike a deal to buy Twitter, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and entrepreneur Keith Rabois tweeted a story from Musk’s startup days. Once, at SpaceX, Musk had noticed a group of interns milling around while they waited in a line for coffee.
The email’s reference to factory workers is also interesting in light of the situation at Tesla’s own factory in Shanghai.