Remote work has upended corporate America, relieving many workers of crushing commutes and office distractions while infuriating just as many bosses. But the nation’s wealthiest individual, Tesla Inc.
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Chief Executive Elon Musk, cast the issue in terms of privilege and morality on Tuesday, saying it was time for the office-averse to “get off the goddamn moral high horse with their work-from-home bullshit.” “The laptop class is living in la-la land,” Musk said in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday from a Tesla factory in Austin, Texas. “Look at the cars, are people working from home here? Of course not.”
“So the people who are building 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 they have to go to work, but you don’t,” Musk continued. “It’s not just a productivity thing. I think it’s morally wrong.” He added that the pro-remote-work crowd needed to “get off the goddamn moral high horse with their work-from-home bullshit. Because they’re asking everyone else to not work from home while they do.” Musk has said that he wants Twitter and Tesla employees to work in the office. But during the interview, he added that a 40-hour-a-week job could, say, run from Monday through Thursday, as opposed to Monday through Friday. And he said people should take vaca …
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