On Friday, Elon Musk got into a Twitter feud with Australia’s third-richest man over the need of ending the pandemic-era practice of remote working. Everyone at Tesla is obliged to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office every week,” said Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk in an internal email this week, adding that “if you don’t show up, we will assume you have quit.” Worker activists slammed the move, citing the risk of exposure to the coronavirus. Scott Farquhar, the co-founder of Atlassian Plc, an Australian project management software company, mocked the policy in a series of tweets, calling it “something out of the 1950s.”
The “work from anywhere” approach of the publicly traded firm was “critical for our sustained success,” he added.”By FY26, we want to have 25K Atlassian personnel,” Farquhar said. “Are there any Tesla workers that are interested?”The preceding series of tweets demonstrate why recessions perform a key economic cleaning role,” Musk said. Musk, who routinely uses Twitter to make unapologetic statements about difficult topics, is no stranger to such exchanges. During the epidemic, several computer businesses in Silicon Valley switched to a mix of home and office work, while others established dates for returning to the office only to push them back when new illnesses arose.
Musk, the world’s richest man and CEO of SpaceX, has a history of going up against other billionaires. In response to a tweet by Jeff Bezos congratulating Amazon.com Inc S success in 2021, he uploaded an image of a second-place medal. Mike Cannon-Brookes, Farquhar’s Atlassian co-founder, publicly accepted and facilitated Musk’s offer to donate a large Tesla battery installation for the state of South Australia when it had a blackout in 2017. Farquhar’s statements criticizing Musk’s return-to-office order were shared by Cannon-Brookes, who has subsequently spearheaded a push to purchase Australian energy giant AGL Energy Ltd and accelerate its transition to renewable energy.
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