‘Living In La-La Land’: Elon Musk Slams Working From Home

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has given a thumbs down to work-from-home culture, saying it is an affront to those who must show up at the workplace.

“People building the cars, servicing the cars, building houses, fixing houses, making the food, making all the things that people consume. It’s messed up to assume that, yes, they have to go to work, but you don’t,” Bloomberg quoted him as saying in an interview with CNBC.

He then said, “It’s not just a productivity thing, I think it’s morally wrong.”

A strong advocate of the return-to-office policy, Musk had banned remote work at Twitter after acquiring the company and also imposed a strict return-to-the-office policy in Tesla, last year. He said that it is unfair culture that sends wrong message to those who can’t work from home.

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The employees in his companies have to spend 40 hours in office, per week. “The laptop class is living in la-la land,” he told the news channel.

“If you want to work at Tesla, you want to work at SpaceX, you want to work at Twitter – you got to come into the office every day,” he added.

After Covid hit the world in 2020, many companies were forced to shut down and remote working became a norm.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk has announced recently that former NBC Universal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino will be the new CEO of Twitter.

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“@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app,” he tweeted.

The billionaire purchased Twitter in a $44 billion deal in October 2022. In December, the billionaire announced that he would step down as the CEO once he finds “someone foolish enough to take the job.”