Elon from the very beginning wanted engineers to work as close to factory floor as possible. E.g. at SpaceX you can stand up from your cubicle and walk max coup

Elon from the very beginning wanted engineers to work as close to factory floor as possible. E.g. at SpaceX you can stand up from your cubicle and walk max couple of hundred of meters and have a look at the factory floor. Exactly the same philosophy applies at Tesla. Whatever it is that Elon does it works for his companies. If you don't want the expectation to give 110% of what you can, don't work for Elon companies. You can argue that factory workers don't have choice what job their are doing, so they need checks and balances. But people who could work remotely certainly can change employer if they dislike Elon work ethics.