When Elon Musk issued his “hardcore” return to the office edict at Twitter, he showed how badly he missed the transformational shift in the way people view work. Instead of rallying the troops, hundreds of employees quit. The world had changed. Musk had not.
Years of organizational psychology research could have predicted this outcome. He was essentially telling employees that he didn’t trust them to work autonomously. That he didn’t care for their well-being.
