The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Podcast

📰 Front Page Leadership - Just To Be Clear, from Elon Musk

July 19, 2022 Season 1 Episode 16
The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Podcast
📰 Front Page Leadership - Just To Be Clear, from Elon Musk
Show Notes

In this episode we discuss the recent email sent out to all Tesla staff from Elon Musk
where he was very blunt in expressing his expectation of people needing to return to work. 

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has told employees they can no longer work from home, warning they must return to the office or leave the company, according to an email sent to employees and seen by the Reuters news agency.

"Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week," Mr Musk wrote in the email sent on Tuesday night.

"If you don't show up, we will assume you have resigned.

One of Mr Musk's Twitter followers posted another email that Mr Musk apparently sent to executives asking them to work in the office for at least 40 hours per week or "depart Tesla".

In response to this tweet, the billionaire said: "They should pretend to work somewhere else."

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Editing note
  • The email from Elon
  • The position of privilege and power
  • Go somewhere else and pretend to be a leader
  • Placing unrealistic expectation on employees
  • If I cant see you working, you must be bludging
  • Trust v Attendance 
  • Returning to the workplace post covid
    • What do we want the people back in the office for?
  • The outdated 9-5 attitude 
  • Life balance, with work being a part of that

The Bloomberg article discussed (Shanghai Tesla factory isolation) can be read here

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