Elon Musk Bashes Remote Work: 'The Laptop Class Is Living in La-La Land'
It’s no secret that Elon Musk opposes work-from-home policies. But on Tuesday, the Tesla CEO escalated his gripes, and called out remote work as morally wrong.
“It’s a productivity issue, but it’s also a moral issue,” Musk said in an interview(Opens in a new window) with CNBC. “People should get off their goddamn moral high horse with their work-from-home bullshit.”
Musk suggested work-from-home policies are fundamentally unfair since not every employee can work from home, pointing to factory and food delivery workers.
“It’s like, really, you’re gonna work from home? And you’re gonna make everyone else who made your car come work at the factory? You’re gonna make people who make your food that gets delivered, that they can’t work from home? The people that come fix your house, they can’t work from home, but you can?”
“Does that seem morally right? That’s messed up,” he then said, later adding: “Because they’re asking everyone else to not work from home while they do. It’s wrong.”
He made the comments as more tech companies, including Amazon and Apple(Opens in a new window), want their employees back in the office. Musk himself ended the work-from-policy at Twitter once he took over the social media platform, which has since lost 80% of its staff due to layoffs, resignations, and firings amid the company's cost-cutting measures.
On that front, Musk acknowledged to CNBC that some of the people laid off from Twitter "probably shouldn't have been let go" in the rush to get costs under control. "If they're not too mad at us, [we'll] probably rehire some of the people who were let go" in the future, he said.
For employees, there are obvious benefits to remote work. For example, staffers don’t have to waste hours of their day
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