[watwut]

> he can't force his employees to work under his total control

That is because he actually can force them to be under his control.

> He also can't accept the gain in life capital for his employees in working from home for his workforce and that the future of work for humanity is probably decentralized offices and WFH, not middle managed, over the shoulder, supervised, centralized offices.

I don't think he cares about their lives. Meanwhile, long hours in office have multiple advantages for controlling CEO like Musk. The people are removed from outside influences (friends, family, time to read) and closed in his own echo chamber. Whatever he wants to normalize, it will be harder for them to see is not normal outside of that bubble. It is another variant on what cults, monasteries, armies etc do ... the more they isolate you from outside influences, the better you surrender own agency.

Plus, people not comfortable with above self exclude. It is win win win for ceo. Not necessary effective, but produces strong loyalty and obeisance. Which has advantages also for productivity.

[whiskey14]

I get what you’re saying but does that produce the most effective, creative and innovative workforce required to compete in the technology industry?

[watwut]

Creative and innovative - absolutely not. Effective - mostly not, except in some situations. There are many ways how to be ineffective tho, this is one of them many. I think that you dont need to be super effective to compete in the technology industry.

Will he be able to compete? I dont know. Musk twitter moves seem incompetent overall to me. But so far, his charizma and money (to certain people) did allowed him to get quite far in his previous companies. He did treated his previous employees pretty much the same way.

[MrMan]

if you look at musk and his friends talking about how to restructure twitter it looks less incompetent. if you remember that he is under a mountain of financial pressure you can also see that these moves are for survival, not to make twitter more awesome. a decimated shell of a company is preferable, for someone who just massively overpaid for a non-growth company, to a much larger organization with higher cost structure.

I dont understand why he wanted twitter and I think the incompetence is in the way he pursued the deal, but once one is saddled with such a problem the steps to get out from under it (or at least minimize the damage) are clear. forcing employees out is necessary.

[prirun]

> I dont understand why he wanted twitter

The thing I read that made the most sense is that he never wanted it. He wanted to use the buyout as cover for selling a bunch of Tesla stock. No due diligence was done because he fully expected to just back out of the deal, but that didn't happen because he and his billionaire buddies were not so happy about getting deposed and dragging all their dirty laundry into the public.

[rohit89]

This take is parroted a lot but makes no sense because he already has a ready made excuse for selling shares with spacex.

[watwut]

It still looks incompetent. Especially in the area of treating advisers. And in the way he is rolling out new feature, no wait, he does not, cancel that out, actually it is going to be done ... nope, yes. Print out code on paper, nope, shredder it actually.

> you can also see that these moves are for survival

They don't seem like moves of survival. They seem impulsive, emotional and causing him damage.

> forcing employees out is necessary

He just had layoff. Literally, it is not like he would need to send midnight eamils about going back to office tomorrow to make them go.