Elon Musk rants about work from home folks again on Tesla earnings call

On Tesla’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk stated individuals who work from home benefit from the individuals who can’t work from home and are “detached from reality.” In the center of speaking about rising rates of interest and their impact on the affordability of autos, Musk launched right into a dialogue about “Marie Antoinette” vibes of the individual he describes asking why doesn’t everybody work from home.

“Like… what about all the people that have to come to the factory and and build the cars? What about all of the people that have to go to to the restaurant and make your food, and deliver your food? It’s like, what are you talking about…”

Musk carried on, saying “Why did I sleep in the factory so many times? Because it mattered,” referring to decreasing the prices of a Tesla. He’d been requested how he thought about value elasticity within the present macroenvironment.

In a CNBC interview earlier this yr, Musk known as distant work “morally wrong” and argued it’s unfair to those that can’t have the choice, like meals supply employees. “Get off the goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bullshit,” Musk stated on the time. Last yr, Musk stated work from home was “no longer acceptable” at Tesla and issued necessities for 40-hour work weeks in workplace.