"Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla," the memo said.
In response to the memo that was tweeted from an unverified account, the billionaire, who has proposed to take Twitter private in a US$44 billion deal, said,"They should pretend to work somewhere else." Tesla joins a wave of companies mandating a return to office for employees. While some big employers have embraced voluntary work-from-home policies permanently, others including Alphabet’s Google are betting that it is best to push in-person interactions among colleagues.