Nearly a month after Elon Musk gave a harsh ultimatum to his employees to ¡®return to work from the office or quit¡¯, the change has begun to take place. Tesla employees have reportedly started coming back to the office.
But it seems that Tesla CEO Elon Musk¡¯s plan to get employees back in the office has hit a bit of a speed bump. There aren¡¯t enough desks and parking spots for returning workers, as per a Fortune report.
Tesla¡¯s most productive factory, located in Fremont, California, has reportedly struggled to accommodate the influx of employees responding to Musk's new in-office mandate, The Information's Becky Peterson reported.?
Tesla employees told The Information that a hiring surge at the company and remodelled parts of the office have made for a crowded space.?
Workers have reportedly returned to an overflowing parking lot and resorted to parking at the local transit station, resuming a pre-pandemic problem.?
Once employees shuttled to the office, some found there was no desk for them to work from or stable enough Wi-Fi to do their jobs. They told The Information that some managers told them to work from home some days because there weren¡¯t enough workstations.?
For the uninitiated, Elon Musk had shot an email to Tesla employees earlier this month. In the email with the subject line "remote work is no longer acceptable", the 51-year-old billionaire reportedly said, "Anyone who is interested in working from home must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week or leave the company".
"This is less than we ask of factory workers," Elon Musk wrote. He also had clarified "The office must be the main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties, for example being responsible for Fremont factory human relations, but having your office be in another state," the Tesla boss wrote in his mail.
Some executives have reportedly pushed back against what they perceive as a ¡°tone-deaf¡± ultimatum, claiming that CEO presence is overrated and that flexibility is imperative when trying to keep and recruit employees throughout the Great Resignation period.?
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Besides Tesla, other global companies that have tried to implement hybrid or fully in-person work policies have met challenges as employees resist the commute back to headquarters and the idea of ¡°returning to normal.¡±?
Employees at Apple had threatened to quit over the company¡¯s hybrid model, and Google too has reportedly struggled to figure out the logistics of bringing employees back, as per a Fortune report. And only half of Goldman Sachs employees reportedly showed up in early March following an in-office mandate, with junior bankers threatening to quit.
Musk¡¯s back-to-office transition is proving just as complicated, especially as he reportedly lays off salaried staff. He may be ready for the return of some workers, but Tesla's Fremont office sure isn¡¯t.
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