Elon Musk fumes at ‘morally wrong’ working from home
Elon Musk believes that office staff working at home while car workers still have to go to the factory is “messed up”
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Elon Musk has called working from home morally wrong and referred to workers in Silicon Valley’s technology industry as the “laptop classes living in La-La land”.
The chief executive of Tesla, the electric car-maker, as well as SpaceX, the aerospace and space transportation services company, said home working was unfair on those who had to commute because of their jobs, such as builders, mechanics or delivery drivers.
“The whole work from home thing, it’s sort of like, I think it’s, like, there are some exceptions, but I kind of think that the whole notion of work from home is a bit like, you know, the fake Marie Antoinette quote, ‘Let them eat cake’,” Musk told CNBC.
The billionaire, 51, who last year bought Twitter, the
