No, but they're forced to work at other companies that are inspired by Tesla, or outright coerced into adopting the same practices or perish due to market forces.
Re:Tesla Master Plan Part 3
by try_the_bass on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:23PM
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I don't think you can blame that on Tesla so much as the rest of "the market", if even that. Tesla is not a monopoly, after all.
I love the mission. I would never work there. They expect grueling hours and a level of commitment that I don't want to give.
It is not abusive to voluntarily work somewhere. It is not abusive to have a culture of work that is way more intense than the average workplace.
The level of Urban's golem-think [1] that exists around Musk because he himself sometimes says stupid things is seriously unbelievable.
[1] https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/tim-urbans-whats-our-proble...