Tesla employees "should pretend to work somewhere else" if they're not willing to return to their offices, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday.
Why it matters: Many companies nationwide have embraced remote work policies, while others are pushing for employees to come back into the office.
Driving the news: “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers," Musk wrote in a leaked memo to staff, per Bloomberg.
- Office employees must work at "a main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties," Musk reportedly wrote in the memo, which Axios did not independently verify.
- As an example, he said someone "responsible for Fremont factory human relations" should not have "your office be in another state.”
- Musk will "review and approve" any situations where employees can't meet the minimum hours, Reuters reports.
The intrigue: Musk has made a bid to buy Twitter, which currently has a different remote work policy.
- Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in March that Twitter's office would open up but employees can still work remotely if they want.
- "Wherever you feel most productive and creative is where you will work and that includes working from home full-time forever," Agrawal tweeted.
