The ‘perfect’ job according to Elon Musk: work 120 hours a week and sleep in the office

These statements have caused a wave of reactions of all kinds. His followers congratulate him because they have the feeling that the United States will not waste as much money as it did before by not granting economic concessions to any entity or collective, however its detractors throw this way of working in which productivity is rewarded above the conciliation.

During the golden times of Tesla, Musk confessed that he slept at the production plant because it was his “main residence,” A strategy decision to instill in its workers the effort that entails lifting an empire -and that despite the sacrifice, results were obtained -a theory that later transferred to X when it bought the social network in 2022.

“Working the weekend is a superpower”

Excellence is linked to the requirement for Musk and this makes it known to its workers of all its various companies. A hard work ethic that wants to move to doge to Cut the federal expenditure in up to two billion dollars. «Very few in the bureaucracy work on the weekend, so it is as if the opposite team simply left the field two days. Working the weekend is a superpower, ”the magnate was boasted in his X social network in defense of the 120 -hour day.

Employees who work at Doge spend 17 hours working, They would only have 48 hours to rest, spend time with the family, sleep, eat or do some hobby. A humanly scarce time because not even two days would reach the average of sleeping eight full hours, a recommendation that doctors do to be productive in our workday. One of the other requirements that Musk has is that officials cannot telegrade because it is “morally incorrect”, therefore, at 120 hours a week we must add the times of the routes by car or transport to the offices. The Doge campaign responds according to him to a “second American revolution” and to achieve this “transformation” is allocating all possible resources.

Musk has spent several nights at the headquarters of the Government Efficiency Department And they have even invited the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House, according to the magazine ‘Wired’. At the moment, Doge has confirmed having saved 105 billion dollars, a figure that cannot be officially confirmed due to the limited documentation it provides.

Beds at the Twitter headquarters

It is not a novelty that Musk I raised to work 120 hours, he already did when he acquired in 2022 the social network of X. «From now on, to build a revolutionary 2.0 twitter and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, We will have to be extremely rigorous»He wrote to his employees.

He came to install beds in several offices of the headquarters in San Francisco without giving explanations to anyone so that workers would rest in times of work peaks and not waste time in the displacements to their homes. One of the viral images was that of an employee, Esther Crawford, camping in a sleeping bag on Twitter offices. “When your team works counterreloj to meet the delivery dates, sometimes you sleep at work,” he explained.

Musk is not the only entrepreneur who thinks that lengthening the working day achieves benefits, This philosophy is also shared by the founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, who wonders how success can be achieved without spending time. «In this world, everyone wants success, they want a pleasant life, they want to be respected. Let me ask everyone, if you do not spend more time and energy than others, how can they achieve the success they want? ”He discussed.

In a dict industry work schedule is “996 hours”that is 9 in the morning to 9 in the afternoon, six days a week. “If you don’t work 996 when you’re young, when can you?”