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'WFH is bullsh**' | Elon Musk blasts remote working as 'morally wrong'

Elon Musk blasts remote working as 'morally wrong'

Elon Musk has labelled remote workers “morally wrong” and says anyone doing so needs to ‘get off their high horse’.

In an interview with CNBC, the Tesla and Twitter mogul described remote workers as “laptop classes” and claimed his views weren’t just rooted in productivity concerns, but that it was unfair on blue collar workers whose jobs couldn't provide the option of flexibility.

“Get off the goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bulls**t,” he said.

“People building the cars, servicing the cars, building houses, fixing houses, making the food, making all the things that people consume. It’s messed up to assume that, yes, they have to go to work, but you don’t” he said.

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