Elon Musk’s productivity hack: Tesla billionaire only takes 2 or 3 days off a year, working 7 days a week and getting 6 hours of sleep a night
Controversial Twitter owner Elon Musk has claimed he is so productive because he only takes two to three days off a year, works seven days a week and only sleeps for six hours a night.
The Tesla and Space X CEO told CNBC he works ‘seven days a week’ and ‘in terms of how many days in a year do I not put in some meaningful amount of work? It’s probably about two or three’.
Musk, 51, says he currently gets around six hours of sleep a night.
‘I tried less. Even though I am awake more hours, I get less done. And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours’ he told CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday.
It comes after DailyMail.com revealed that Musk had taken time away from the office over the weekend to attend a rave in downtown Los Angeles.
After taking over Twitter in October, Musk quickly caused consternation by removing staff’s remote working arrangements
Last summer Musk insisted that Tesla workers come back to the office following remote working during the pandemic
The billionaire also criticized remote working as ‘morally wrong’ but said he did not expect his employees to put in the same amount of hours as him.
Musk said he disliked that office workers felt they had a right to work from home when the people that make and deliver their food can’t.
‘It’s messed up to assume that they have to go to work when you don’t,’ he explained.
Adding: ‘It’s not just a productivity thing. I think it’s morally wrong.’
The Twitter owner compared remote work to Marie Antionette’s ‘let them eat cake’ scenario and said he thinks the ‘laptop classes are living in la la land.’
‘It’s like, really, you’re going to work from home and you’re going to make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory?’ Musk said.
‘You’re going to make the people who make your food that gets delivered that they can’t work from home? You know, the people that fix your home, they can’t work from home, but you can? Does that seem morally right? That’s messed up.’
When Musk took control of Twitter in October, he quickly caused consternation by removing staff’s remote working arrangements.
The change, sent in his first company-wide email, said that staff would now be expected to attend the office for more than 40 hours a week.
The billionaire criticized remote working as ‘morally wrong’
When Musk took control of Twitter in October, he quickly caused consternation by removing staff’s remote working arrangements.
That was along with Musk’s demand that Twitter employees commit to working ‘long hours at high intensity’ or leave if they did not agree, according to CNBC.
Musk also slashed the Twitter staff by eliminating half the 7,500 global workforce.
Some of those who were axed had criticized the new CEO, Musk admitted.
The tech workers were informed by email that they had been ‘terminated immediately’ because they ‘violated company policy’.
They allegedly made critical comments about the new CEO on the company’s Slack messaging system – resulting in them being laid off by the new billionaire boss.
Last summer Musk insisted that Tesla workers come back to the office following remote working during the pandemic.
He delivered staff an ultimatum of 40 hours a week in the office or quit and the company began tracking staff via their office badges.
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