Uproar at Elon Musk’s remote working comments
In this monologue, Rob Moore reacts to Elon Musk’s leaked memo that bans remote work at Tesla, praising Musk’s boldness while critiquing the trend of companies touting work‑from‑home as a modern perk. Moore contrasts Musk’s stance with Atlassian’s Australian billionaire CEO, who defends a highly distributed, flexible model and even attempts to poach Tesla staff. The speaker argues that for most employees, especially managers, office presence is essential for culture, energy, accountability, and rapid communication, citing his own experience running up to seven companies where in‑office oversight proved valuable. He acknowledges that remote work can work for self‑motivated entrepreneurs and coders, but stresses that it requires self‑discipline, self‑management, and a clear vision. Throughout, Moore promotes his membership platform rob.team, detailing courses on investing, entrepreneurship, and building multiple income streams, and repeatedly invites viewers to join the community to learn how to thrive while working from anywhere. The video ends with a call for audience comments on the Musk‑Atlassian debate and a reminder that “if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.”
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So there's been some uproar and outrage at Elon Musk's recent work from home comments, and I think it raises some very interesting discussion points on how the evolution of work is actually now a revolution. Now, um, in many ways, I think Elon Musk is brave and in, in some ways wise to speak out about work from home, because I think that the lockdown has caused an apathy in some to work, but also just a real difficulty in motivation for others. Now, there are many smart people who work hard from home, and these people should be pissed off at the mass of people, um, not working from home but expecting to get paid from it. And I also think when it comes to working from home, there's two angles at play here. So I'm going to discuss all this, and I'd love your thoughts. You know, should we embrace a more work-from-home culture Or is working from home an excuse to not work hard enough? I would love your thoughts in the comments. I'll just update you. So Elon Musk sent out a memo to his team which got leaked, and it said remote work is no longer acceptable. And I'm actually really glad that he, he stood out spoke up, stood up about this, because I don't think many people have the courage to do so. Or at least they want the fancy PR of, look at us, we embrace work from home, we're a modern culture. Whereas Elon Musk has done the opposite and he said remote work is no longer acceptable. He says anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum and I mean minimum of 40 hours a week, or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers. So he's basically said, work 40 hours minimum a week in the office or leave. Now, um, another billionaire in Australia has come out and had a bit of a ding-dong spat with Elon Musk, saying that, um, he— this is like something out of the 1950s. But Elon Musk has said that if people want to pretend to work, they should pretend to work for someone else. Now, as an employer of up to 250 people, in fact, before lockdown, contractors and in office, and then employing 70 people through the lockdown and seeing the work from home ethic and mentality. Some people abusing it, some people just struggling with it. I mean, how do you create a culture, an energy, a vision working from home? You need the office, the energy, the environment. How do you get information quickly? How do you get a sense for what's going on in the company and the culture when you're working from home? You really don't. And a lot of people need accountability and they need managing and they need motivating. Otherwise they would be working for themselves. So Elon Musk has come out and said they should pretend to work somewhere else. Now this, um, Australian billionaire who, um, owns the software giant Atlassian, um, has replied. He's been a bit cheeky actually. Cheeky good, cheeky bad, you tell me. He has said that this feels like something out of the 1950s. This is the future of how we will work, highly distributed, highly flexible. Yes, right now it's not perfect, but we have to experiment to get it right. And then what he did is he went on to say, look, if you want to come and work for Atlassian on remote work, come along. And he tried to poach Tesla's staff, which was a bit opportunist and a bit cheeky. Maybe you'd say that's clever. Maybe you'd say that's a bit underhanded. Now I've got two angles here. I agree with Elon Musk that there are many people that are pretending to work, but I also believe there are just many people that need managing and need accountability. There are also many people who are a bit lost and dazed since the lockdown and don't really know how to manage themselves and are emotionally struggling a bit. But for those three reasons, whether it's apathy, pretending to work, or needing accountability, or just needing some redirection in your life, I believe that working in the office is much better to solve those three issues. At least working part in the office, you can't recreate culture and energy and accountability work from home. You simply can't. So in that regard, I agree with Elon Musk. However, if you want to start your own business, if you want to be an entrepreneur like Elon Musk— because I work from home a lot, but I'm self-motivated and I run 7 companies, and you know, I'm never gonna pretend to work from home. I probably work better from home. Now, there are some people who work better from home who work for a company. They don't want the distraction, etc. But I've got to just say, if you're someone who works from home and you actually put in the graft and you do a bloody good job, you should speak out and be pissed off with all the people who are taking the piss and ruining your good name, because there's a lot of people abusing the work from home system. And, you know, a lot of people in the public sector as well, we might add, but that'll be for another video. But if you do want to start a business, scale a business, be an entrepreneur, you've got to learn to work from home. You've got to learn to self-manage, to self-motivate, to stay focused and not distracted. So it's kind of like depends what you want. Now, if you'd like to be an entrepreneur, start a business, scale a business, create extra income streams, multiple income streams, I think you should join my members area, rob.team. Now, on rob.team, I've just launched a 9-hour, 9-module, 10-hour course on how to invest, whether low or no money, or whatever level of money you've got. I also do courses on starting a business and scaling a business and earning income from home and side hustles. In fact, I've just created a piece of content called the 7 Different Types of Income. Do you know there are 7 different income sources? Do you know that millionaires have between 3 and 7 different income sources? Do you know zeroes have one income source? So if you'd like to go from one income sources to 3 or 7, you need to join rob.team. So if you just open a browser a new window, a page, and just type in rob.team. If you want to work from home, if you want to start your business and scale your business, then you should join rob.team because that's what it's set for, uh, set up for. Um, it's for startups and scale-ups, by the way. Terry has said subscribed an hour ago. Welcome aboard, Terry. Um, so in, in the regard of being employed I probably agree with Elon Musk. I think that more people than not struggle to work from home. It could be that they're just lazy. It could be that they want to take the piss out of the employer. But it's probably more likely that they're not very good at managing themselves and they need accountability and they need energy and management and the hustle and bustle and communication lines of an office. And that's not their fault. But with all these companies PRing and pretending to be a modern firm and all, we embrace work from home. Um, you know, I think that's just PR spin. And actually, I think most of them would probably be more happy if they had, um, you know, an in-house work-from-office workforce. Now, of course, if you're a coder or if you have a remote-type job, that is different. So for example, Vanny has said in here, I do not agree. Um, she— they've said that people are less productive when they're in the office. I think it depends. You could argue if it's a technical role and there's an open-plan office, it's actually more distracting in an office. I, I do accept that in some roles, but I wouldn't say in most, and definitely not in managerial. Like, if you're a manager, how can you manage remotely? It's virtually impossible. So these are interesting times in the development of working and culture and employment. I'm certainly excited to see how it goes. It's interesting that we've got Elon Musk that says if you're not going to work minimum 40 hours a week, go home. We've work from home for someone else, go and pretend to work for someone else. And then we've got another Australian billionaire saying this is the future, let's embrace this new work from home culture. What do you agree with? What do you think about Elon Musk coming out and basically saying if you want to work from home, leave Tesla? That's quite a big bold move, and I would love your thoughts. And my, my thoughts are energy accountability, culture and communication, and career progression and vision and productivity, mostly you need to be in the office, mostly, depending on your role. However, if you want to be an entrepreneur, you want to start a business, you want to scale a business, um, and you want to earn your own money, you want to create multiple streams of recurring income and digital income and online income, and you want to work for yourself You've got to learn to work from home. You've got to learn to be self-motivated and self-managing, otherwise it's never going to work for you. And if you want to be that work-from-home, side hustle, work-from-anywhere type of lifestyle entrepreneur, my members platform Rob.team is the best place for you because it's for start and scale-up entrepreneurs who want to create multiple streams of recurring income, build digital assets, monetize social media, personal brand and be able to have that lifestyle freedom to work anywhere. I can, I can run 7 companies that do tens of millions in revenue from this phone or this laptop. But self-managing and working from home is not easy. I think it's everyone's dream to work from home, but it's not easy to work from home if you're not used to it because you need to be focused, really focused, and most people don't self-manage very well. But if you would like to develop that entrepreneurial skill set and learn strategies and tactics to build multiple streams of recurring income, I invite you to join rob.team right now. Just open a browser, a new page, type in rob.team. Join us. The cost of a large cup of coffee, that's it. You can cancel anytime. There's loads of new content in there. I've just done the 7 different income streams and how you can build multiple streams of recurring income, going from the main income stream that keeps people poor, which is earned income, through the other 6 income streams which make people rich. I've also got the 9-module, 10-hour How to Invest series that loads of people have been asking for off the back of this cost of living crisis. So go and join now at rob.moore.team, and I'll see you in the members area. James has just said time management is key. Exactly. So I, I've written books on time and life management. I'll do a lot of content on managing your time and managing your emotions and managing yourself. I'll do a lot of that content for you in the members area at rob.team. It's literally the cost of a large coffee a month. That's it. You can cancel anytime. There's a community of nearly 5,000 start and scale up entrepreneurs, and you've got to learn how to manage yourself if you want to work from home. If you want to be an entrepreneur. And by the way, if you're not an entrepreneur but you want to learn to work from home properly and effectively and efficiently and have your boss really, uh, reward you— because also, if you're not seen, how do you get promotions? Difficult. So work from home is not just as easy. I think a lot of people want the easy way. No, no, no, easy now, hard later. Hard now, easy later. So go and join rob.team. I'll see you in the members area. Just type in a new page, rob.team, and let me know what your thoughts are on Elon Musk, who's basically sent a memo to his entire staff, uh, and he said remote work is no longer acceptable. Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum— and I mean minimum— of 40 hours a week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers. They should pretend to work somewhere else. But another Australian billionaire, um, who owns the software giant Atlassian has replied saying this feels like something out of the 1950s. Anyone who wants to come and work for Atlassian— so he's trying to poach Tesla staff. He says that this is the future of how we will work, highly distributed, highly flexible. Yeah, right now it's not perfect, but we have to experiment to get it right. In the past year alone, 42% of our new hires globally live 2 or more hours from an office. There is great talent all over the world, not just within a 1-hour radius of our offices. So the billionaires are having spats on social media about work from home. Um, there you go. So he even said, welcome, Tesla friends, we're Atlassian and we work from anywhere, apply now. Cheeky bastard's gone to try and poach Elon's staff. Interesting times. Let me know what you think about Elon Musk saying, um, if you want to work from home, leave Tesla and go and pretend to work somewhere else. Now, like I said, um, if you want to work for yourself, you've got to learn to work from home. And actually, that's hard. That's really hard. It's much easier to work in an office and have a manager breathing down your neck and telling you what to do and when, and when the reports have to be done and when the deadlines are. But setting your own deadlines and managing your own emotions, that's a much harder thing. But if you do want to learn to work from home really well, you should join Rob.team to start a business, scale a business, become an entrepreneur, create multiple streams of recurring income, learn the 7 different income sources and strategies, learn how to invest. I'm a brand new course, 9-module, 10-hour on how to invest with low or no money, how to diversify, spread your risk, learn the right investments, manage your time. 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