Tesla CEO Elon Musk: 'The laptop class is living in la-la land' over work-from-home

Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk sits down with CNBC’s David Faber for an exclusive interview from Austin, Texas, during Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting. Musk speaks on his controversial work from home policies and why he thinks it is a 'moral issue'.

[alexanderh.]

Some jobs allow you to work from home and some don't. There is no moral issue there.

[Coeurebene]

As a programmer I spent years commuting to office every day, only to interact exclusively with people on other continents. Home working just saves me hours per day and doesn't affect my work at all. It's not because some people have a harder life that I have to shoot myself in the foot so that I suffer too, it's a really dumb way to look at "morality". Now if my productivity was impacted, then yes I would get the point.

[namki]

By saying that it's unfair that some people can work from home, he admits himself that working from the office sucks

[turborat]

When covid was still in its early days I read an article where they discussed how CEO's felt about work from home. Many of them noted they feel a lack of control and I think that's the problem. It's a control issue, not a moral issue.

[andrejlondyn]

I'm a worker who cannot do my job from home and I have to go to work everyday day. I have zero issue with someone working from home. There's no moral issue there. People have different jobs. Some require a lot of physical strenght and a hard manual labour, others are just about intellectual activity. It's ridiculous to think that we all have to do our jobs the same exact way. This man is a complete fool. As long as you get your job done, who cares whether it's from your house or from the factory? It's irrelevant.

[garrettstupperware]

Breaking news: Car company CEO thinks workers have a moral obligation to commute to work in cars.

[jondoe]

The amount of time, auto expenses, an traffic related stress we face on the way to/from work, really makes a big difference in morale/productivity.

[mkedzier]

Elon Musk talking to people about morality - that's rich.

[airruiz]

Being able to actually spend time with your family and raising your kids instead of hours in traffic every day is as moral as it gets.

[Gamepalooza]

Each employer needs to decide the model that makes the best sense for them depending on the type of work and the ability to attract employees. I've had an in office IT job for over 20 years and it was very common to be called to work nights, weekends. holidays and even on vacation in addition to being in the office during normal hours. The company had no problems letting me be a laptop class worker for them on my time in addition to being in the office 5 days a week. Now I'm working full time remotely which is a benefit for me as an employee. I respect Elon in many ways, but this one size fits all opinion doesn't make sense to me.

[Shmeckos]

It's like saying that it's a moral issue that programmers get to sit down all day while other jobs require manual labor. Jobs have different requirements, and if your job can be done to the same degree from home, you should be allowed to work from home

[algrithm]

Saying WFH is unfair is like saying salary differences are unfair. It's a larger moral issue emitting greenhouse gases just to work in a different location; not to mention wasting a portion of people's lives commuting.

[bernardbarry]

This is the guy so concerned about the plight of the blue collar worker that he’s trying to build his own robots to replace them 😂

[michaelweber]

Dude a billionaire and he’s going to pull the “let them eat cake” line.

[bambangwaseso]

Working from office is a disaster when your boss only measure your performance based on your attendance/presence at office (instead of how good you are at your job).

[Sara-mfpx]

I use to spend over 2 hours a day in the car, $300 a month in parking, $250 on gas… I refuse to go back. Time with my kid is everything.

[superso]

Elon musk flies in a private jet anytime he wants. It’s morally wrong for him to be able to do this but his factory workers can’t

[jewsefjones]

Elon lecturing us on moral issues. I'm good

[beadlesastout]

Companies wanted to reduce wages of people who are working from home even though they are now using their own electric, internet, coffee/tea. The greed of companies is beyond acceptable now.

[TJ-mloy]

With that logic, isn’t it a morality issue that CEOs expect to make millions of dollars a year while the people working for their companies are barely making ends meet?