WATCH: Elon Musk SLAMS Working From Home - Says It Is 'Morally Wrong'

On Tuesday, Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed working from home was "morally wrong" during an interview with CNBC's David Faber.

Musk defended his plan to make Twitter employees return to in-person work, saying, "I’m a big believer that people are more productive when they’re in person. And, really the whole sort of work-from-home thing. It’s like I think it’s, too but there are some exceptions, but I kind of think that the whole notion of work from home is a bit like the you know, the fake Marie Antoinette quote, let them eat cake."

Musk continued, saying, "it’s like, really, you’re gonna work from home and you’re gonna make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory? You’re gonna make the people who make your food that gets delivered that they can’t work from home, that, you know, the people like they can’t fix your house? They can’t work from home. But you can. Does that seem morally right? That’s messed up!"
 
After Faber pressed Musk on if he thought it was a moral issue, Musk quickly doubled down, saying, "Yes."

 "It’s a productivity issue but it’s also a moral issue. You also get off the ... moral high horse with the work-from-home bullsh**. Because they’re asking everyone else not to work from home while they do, it’s wrong," Musk remarked.

After Faber pointed out there was still considerable pushback about returning to work in the corporate community, Musk pressed further, claiming, "the laptop class living in la la land, okay. But as I said, you can’t but look at the cars [at the Tesla facility in the background]. Are people working from home here? Of course not. So people were building 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. How is that that it’s not just a productivity thing? I think it’s morally wrong."

Faber then asked if working every day was a requirement for working at Musk-led Twitter. Musk clarified his position with considerable nuance.

 "Yes, I mean, you know, like, I’m not saying I’m saying like, look, put 40 hours in, you know, and frankly, it doesn’t even need to be like, you know, Monday through Friday, you know, work Monday through Thursday, and also not saying no one should take I think people should take vacations. Like I work seven days a week, but I’m not expecting others to do that."

Musk expertly defended his position in light of the changing climate of America in 2023.