Musk reportedly wrote in a memo that it was “totally ok if you want to stay home for any reason.”
... [+]: Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to employees on Monday telling staff to stay at home if they feel unwell, after initially dismissing concerns about the fast-moving issue and tweeting earlier this month: “The coronavirus panic is dumb.”, Musk wrote: “I’d like to be super clear that if you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please do not feel obligated to come to work.”
He added that he would be coming into work but that it is “Totally ok if you want to stay home for any reason,”reported, adding that he was not aware of any Tesla employee testing positive for the virus. It comes after Musk tweeted to his 32 million followers on March 6: “The coronavirus panic is dumb.” The tweet received 1.7 million likes and retweeted 350,000 times, becoming theMonday’s memo went on to say: “My frank opinion is that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself.”: Covid-19, now a pandemic, has infected around 170,000 people around the world since it was first detected in Wuhan, China, late last year, while more than 6,500 people have died.
non-essential businesses for three weeks. It is as yet unclear why the electric vehicle assembly plant is remaining open despite this, the. Businesses related to healthcare, sanitation, food, shelter, social services, childcare, auto supply and repair, as well as gas stations are among those that can stay open, according to Alameda County public health department. Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara is also affected by the shut down. : There have been around 4,500 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the U.
. Several large companies—including Facebook, Twitter and Google, have asked their thousands of employees around the world to work from home.
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