Twitter Permanently Works From Home VS Tesla Fights Against California Government to Successfully Resume Work
On one hand, major Internet companies have been delaying the resumption of work, while on the other hand, Musk has violated the ban and resumed work. Whether the era of remote work has arrived depends on specific analysis of the specific situation.
Twitter employees can now work from home forever, if they choose.
A few days ago, Google and Facebook announced that their employees can work from home throughout 2020, and Twitter subsequently launched an even more "radical" policy.
On May 12, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent an email to employees saying,Even after the epidemic is over, they will be allowed to work from home permanently
Of course, some tasks that need to be done offline (such as maintaining servers) will still require employees to go to the office.
Twitter: Working from home permanently, there may be no going back
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, Twitter encouraged employees to work from home starting in early March.
"We were one of the first companies to adopt a work-from-home model, and since then we've been considering continuing with this model to put the safety of our people and community first," a Twitter spokesperson said.
Early in the work-from-home shift, Twitter’s head of human resources, Jennifer Christie, said the company’s work structure “may never be the same as it was before.”
“People who don’t like working remotely will find that it actually helps them thrive,” she said. “Managers who thought they couldn’t manage a remote team will also change their minds.”So, I don’t think we’ll be going back to the office.”
In fact, before the outbreak of the virus, CEO Jack had already announced his intention to work in a "distributed" manner, and the COVID-19 pandemic simply brought the company forward with this plan.
Jack said in an email,Twitter is unlikely to open its offices until September.And before that, business trips will be canceled, with very few exceptions. The company will also cancel all offline events for the rest of the year and re-evaluate its plans for 2021 later this year.
Finally, Twitter also saidIncreased home-working allowance to $1,000 for all employees.
Twitter encourages working from home so much. Is it because it has discovered that employees working from home save the company a lot of costs?
Musk goes against the grain: Tesla must resume work as soon as possible
On May 10, Musk was dissatisfied with the local government's rejection of Tesla's application to resume work, so he filed a lawsuit against the Alameda County government in California and threatened to move Tesla out of California if it was not allowed to resume work.
Tesla's North American human resources director also sent an email to production workers that day saying: "The unpaid leave will end. She said,Employees who do not wish to return to work may continue to take unpaid leave.But they may no longer be eligible for unemployment benefits.”
That same evening, Tesla also released a 37-page "Return to Work Plan," includingIncreased disinfection efforts, measured worker temperatures, reduced the number of people using shuttle buses by half, and provided workers with personal protective equipmentetc.
On May 12, Musk's patience ran out.He reopened Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, in defiance of a government ban.Became the first person to violate the county's order.
Musk also threatened:I will be in touch with everyone and if anyone gets arrested for this, please just arrest me.It can be said to be very tough.
Most of the comments under Musk's tweet were supportive, and Trump also tweeted in support of the factory reopening as soon as possible.
The California government gave in, and Iron Man won
On May 13, Musk emerged victorious in the confrontation.
Alameda County, California, and Tesla had productive talks on safety plans, county authorities said on Wednesday.Tesla’s local assembly plant can begin to increase its minimum business operations.
Musk is so anxious to resume work, and there is a reason for that. As a manufacturing plant, it is different from an Internet company, and many operations need to be completed by workers on site.
Tesla's California factory has been shut down since March 23, and workers have been on unpaid leave since then. During the nearly two-month shutdown, the company lost $300 million per week.
Tesla, one of the largest employers in California, has about 10,000 employees at its Fremont factory. Tesla's contribution to California exceeded $5 billion in 2017, paid $328 million directly to California state and local tax departments, and provided more than 50,000 jobs in California in 2017.
So, why would California be willing to let Tesla move away?
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