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Leave 'La-la-land': Musk Slams Big Tech's 'Laptop Class' Over Remote Work
Leave 'La-la-land': Musk Slams Big Tech's 'Laptop Class' Over Remote Work
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Musk believes that working remotely is not only economically inefficient, but also morally wrong.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk slammed tech professionals for clinging to their work-from-home fixation and doubled down with some scathing criticism, dubbing them "the laptop class living in la-la-land," as quoted by media. Apart from the obvious productivity concerns, he also cited moral reasons.Musk believes that software engineers are being hypocritical, wishing to work from home while expecting service workers to continue to show up in person.He went so far as to mention the fake Marie Antoinette quote, "Let them eat cake.″ Musk concluded his rant with a suggestion that programmers should get off "their moral high horse with their work-from-home bullsh**."The remote work trend became mandatory amid the COVID lockdown, and many got accustomed to it. However, as productivity shrank and investor appetites grew, many tech companies started actively urging their employees to return to the office.When Musk bought Twitter in the fall of 2022, he immediately banned working remotely and stated that employees must be present in the office for 40 hours a week.Under Musk’s leadership, Twitter experienced many changes, starting from paid verification checkmarks and unveiling a "For You" section of the newsfeed, and ending with the disclosure of the now renowned Twitter Files. The latter is a trove of documents that revealed the unpleasant truth about the platform collaborating with the US government and whitewashing 'Deep State' censorship.
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Leave 'La-la-land': Musk Slams Big Tech's 'Laptop Class' Over Remote Work
When speaking to a US media outlet, Elon Musk laced into the ongoing remote work trend, ushered in by what he called the "laptop class" of Big Tech and multinationals during the COVID lockdown era, blasting their hypocrisy for letting it linger on now since service workers have to show up to do hands-on work.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk slammed tech professionals for clinging to their work-from-home fixation and doubled down with some scathing criticism, dubbing them "the laptop class living in la-la-land," as quoted by media. Apart from the obvious productivity concerns, he also cited moral reasons.
Musk believes that software engineers are being hypocritical, wishing to work from home while expecting service workers to continue to show up in person.
15 February 2023, 05:26 GMT
He went so far as to mention the fake Marie Antoinette quote, "Let them eat cake.″
The tech tycoon points to the last Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who advised peasants to "eat cake" upon learning that they were starving and had no bread. The quote, though known to be a hoax, became the symbol of hypocrisy.
Musk concluded his rant with a suggestion that programmers should get off "their moral high horse with their work-from-home bullsh**."
The remote work trend became mandatory amid the COVID lockdown, and many got accustomed to it. However, as productivity shrank and investor appetites grew, many tech companies started actively urging their employees to return to the office.
7 February 2023, 15:13 GMT
When Musk bought Twitter in the fall of 2022, he immediately banned working remotely and stated that employees must be present in the office for 40 hours a week.
Under Musk’s leadership, Twitter experienced many changes, starting from paid verification checkmarks and unveiling a "For You" section of the newsfeed, and ending with the disclosure of the now renowned Twitter Files. The latter is a trove of documents that revealed the unpleasant truth about the platform collaborating with the US government and whitewashing 'Deep State' censorship.
