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Elon Musk's first order of business in Trump administration: Kill remote work

by noncoml on 11/25/24, 6:04 PM with 11 comments

• by noncoml on 11/25/24, 6:05 PM

  The masks have dropped. Return to office was never about productivity and was always about forcing people to quit.

• by nikolay on 11/25/24, 7:46 PM

  It depends on the job, but for software engineering, remote work is the most efficient one. Of course, there always will be slackers in all modes of work, but I've seen more slackers in the office than among remote co-workers.

  Elon Musk is a strange bird that many idolize and consider him super smart, but he is not. Of course, being the most terrible speaker and dancer is the least of his issues! It's funny how he suddenly became a Republicans supporter when he started Tesla with policies pushed by the Democrats and who claims to be a conservative and someone vocally against migrants but meanwhile works on replacing Americans with clumsy and super expensive robots. I'm also not sure how conservatives like his Neuralink company, and Starlink, which is beeming us constantly without any place to hide.

• by quantified on 11/25/24, 6:13 PM

  Note how much attention is on what Musk is saying about stuff. He's the laser dot dancing on the floor, the cats writing and reading the journalism can't help fixating on it. There is so much else to be actually interested in about the transition.

• by JSDevOps on 11/25/24, 8:12 PM

  Ok then, no more starlink contracts signed. It enables remote work.

• by gsibble on 11/25/24, 6:26 PM

  For sure this is just another form of laying off workers, but as bloated as the federal government is, I'm fine with it.

  You do realize that for at least the past year, the only reason the employment reports have had a positive figure is because the government is hiring more people than the private sector is laying off? That's unsustainable.