(02-26-2025, 05:36 PM)Jag149 Wrote: Elon stated the reason for the email he sent. He stressed it wasn't a performance review. (I am guessing those will come later.

Are these employees alive?
Are these actual real people? are they fictional people collecting a paycheck?
Can these people write an email?

If this is too much of a burden, then yes, these employees need to go.

I believe they will begin tracking those paychecks that had no email response.

I'm most of the way through Musk's biography now and the tactic he's using with the emails is akin to what he did when he bought Twitter. He knew that a large portion of the Twitter accounts were bots and duplicates, so he started charging a small monthly fee to get verified. It wasn't to make money. It was a validation process to ensure the person behind the account was real because they had to provide a credit card number and an email. 

The layoffs are another tactic from what is described as the "Musk algorithm". The rapid turn arounds at SpaceX and tripling the output of the Tesla factory in Fremont was due to his efforts to streamline the process. His emphasis is on deletion of unnecessary parts, procedures and processes with the mindset that if at least 10% of the deleted factors aren't added back in later, then enough wasn't deleted to begin with. It's a method that has served him well.

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