Elon Musk's Tesla home-working move could spell doom for Twitter employees

[iMore.com]

Tesla CEO and prospective Twitter owner Elon Musk has written to employees of the electric car maker to say that working from home is no longer an option — they have to work a minimum of 40 hours per week from a Tesla office.

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[Lee_Bo]

And the great resignation continues…….

 

[Wotchered]

Interesting, I’d like to know how that is calculated. I mean does this mean actually worked,or attended ? does this include meal breaks and time in the lavatory ? Are you tracked at all times ? Are you expected to be available on line or phone 24/7 ? (I know people that are ).
Do you think our Elon is setting himself up to fail on certain targets, so he has someone to blame ?

 

[Just_Me_D]

Perhaps it’s a means to trim the workforce without having to actually fire anyone. He knows some people will quit/resign, but he also knows that some people will stay. Some of those who stay will have the opportunity to move into vacated upper level positions, if available.

Just food for thought.

 

[Lee_Bo]

Perhaps it’s a means to trim the workforce without having to actually fire anyone. He knows some people will quit/resign, but he also knows that some people will stay. Some of those who stay will have the opportunity to move into vacated upper level positions, if available.

Just food for thought.

Plausible.

However, I just left a global corporation (for multiple reason) that had a “no work from home” policy.

Not because the work couldn’t be done remotely, but because managers wanted to be able to interrupt you multiple times per day to see what you were doing. Had I been able to work from home I could have finished my work much faster without someone coming into my office every hour.

 

[Wotchered]

Plausible.

However, I just left a global corporation (for multiple reason) that had a “no work from home” policy.

Not because the work couldn’t be done remotely, but because managers wanted to be able to interrupt you multiple times per day to see what you were doing. Had I been able to work from home I could have finished my work much faster without someone coming into my office every hour.

But there would be no need for a huge tranche of lower middle management if everybody was working from home in that case ! Like most people I could recount anecdotes about office politics,and keep-my-job-not-yours shenanigans and deliberate non communication.

 

[Just_Me_D]

Plausible.

However, I just left a global corporation (for multiple reason) that had a “no work from home” policy.

Not because the work couldn’t be done remotely, but because managers wanted to be able to interrupt you multiple times per day to see what you were doing. Had I been able to work from home I could have finished my work much faster without someone coming into my office every hour.

I believe you. With that being said, some supervisors and managers are like that. They’re fearful of losing their jobs and/or have their sights on a bigger prize so they micromanage.

In your case, being checked on every hour is downright ridiculous. That manager had trust issues, for sure.