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Working from home immoral? A lesson in ethics, and history, for Elon Musk

  • Written by Dale Tweedie, Senior lecturer, Macquarie University
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Elon Musk doesn’t like people working from home. A year ago he declared the end of remote work for employees at car maker Tesla. Now he has called the desire of the “laptop classes” to work from home “immoral”.

“You’re gonna work from home and you’re gonna make everyone else...

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