On whether to end telecommuting and working in the office during the epidemic period, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Scott Farquhar, CEO of atlassian, an Australian billionaire and software company, have "quarreled"... According to Reuters and the guardian, musk wrote in an email within Tesla earlier this week, All employees of the company are required to work at least 40 hours in the office every week. "If you do not appear, we will assume that you have resigned." Mail scale.
This email sparked discussion and controversy, while Farquhar directly opened up. According to Reuters, Farquhar released a series of tweets on the 2nd, laughing at Musk's request "as it was in the 1950s". He even threw an "olive branch" at Tesla employees.
In the first tweet, Farquhar wrote: "today's news about musk and Tesla is like that in the 1950s: 'all Tesla employees are required to work at least 40 hours a week in the office'. This is very different from the approach we adopted in atlassian for the following reasons." ↓
In the next three tweets, Farquhar first boasted that atlassian employees' choice of the workplace and way they want every day has become the "key to sustainable growth" of the company. Later, he added, "in the past year alone, 42% of our new employees around the world lived two hours or more away from the office. There are excellent talents all over the world, not limited to one hour away from our office." ↓
In the last tweet, Farquhar also posted a link to the atlassian recruitment website, and wrote: "our goal is to increase the number of employees in atlassian to 25000 by fiscal year 2026." He directly asked, "are any Tesla employees interested?" ↓
The guardian said that Farquhar's series of tweets "angered" musk. Musk retorted: "the tweets above illustrate why recession has an important economic cleansing function." ↓
The Guardian reported that Farquhar did not reply to musk about this, but he later tweeted that, "it is hard to believe that it has been 20 years since we founded atlassian (in the economic recession), but we have just started!" He also attached a link to this tweet about his experience in running the company with another co-founder when atlassian was 20 years old. ↓
The report also said that at present, the top of the atlassian recruitment website reads: "welcome Tesla's friends. We are atlassian. We can work anywhere. Now apply." ↓
Some netizens supported Farquhar and predicted that "many talented employees will leave Tesla". ↓
There are also netizens who support musk, saying that his work at home is really bad. ↓
"I work from home badly because I am easily distracted... But my house looks great and the food is delicious."
Some netizens believe that musk has the right to make such requests to employees. ↓
"I work from home and run my own business, which is my choice. Tesla is Musk's company. If he requires employees to work in the office 40 hours a week, he has the right to do so. There may be special circumstances such as illness, but what is wrong with the provision?"
Some netizens also told Farquhar that Tesla and atlassian belong to different industries, and whether they work in the office will have an impact on the operation of Companies in different industries. ↓
"Scott, you do software, only software. Considering this, telecommuting is much easier. Tesla also produces software, but everything must run together with physical hardware, both in the real world and their test track. Telecommuting will make it more difficult."