“No Place to Hide” – Joe Rogan’s Guest Makes Stunning Admission on Elon Musk’s Efficiency’s Impact on D.O.G.E.

The time for mass layoffs hit Twitter (now X) back in 2022 after thousands of employees of the social media site received emails that informed them if they had lost their jobs, shortly after Elon Musk’s takeover. He also fired some of the top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, after buying the platform. That led to a series of network failures and a flight of advertisers to abandon content moderation. The businessman, however, preferred to go too far rather than fall short. This led many to believe that the $314 billion rich Musk was a bad boss.

But in a recent edition of the Joe Rogan Experience, entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer Marc Andreessen revealed an anecdote that would make every hater think otherwise. Talking to Joe Rogan about the government and Elon Musk, Andreessen revealed the story shared by an xAI employee online where he talked about the personal bond and vision, individual growth and efficiency that Musk looks for in his employees. And how did he do it? By spending 18 hours having personal one-on-ones with them.

He said, “Elon spent 18 hours at the office in five-minute chunks. Every five minutes, each person had a speaking slot to explain to Elon what they were doing. Wow. And he did that for, you know, five times whatever—right?—18 hours. Think about what that meant: every employee had an opportunity to tell the big boss what they were working on. Every employee had an opportunity to be recognized for their effort. Every employee had an opportunity to get live feedback from the big boss, who had a comprehensive overview of everything as to what they should be doing. Whoa. And there’s no place to hide.” 

This revelation on JRE #2234 truly shocked Joe Rogan, who was stunned by the effort Musk took to make sure that each one of his employees was working hard and making individual growth in their lives. Not only that, the Tesla CEO is fixated on efficiency. And now, he wants the government employees to have a similar zeal and efficiency when serving the public. As a result, he and Donald Trump have some major plans ahead that include a massive reduction of the workforce.

Elon Musk’s vision for government workings

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the heads of the future Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), which currently exists only virtually, intend to remove federal regulations one by one and lay off officials in large numbers. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire outlined intentions to lower the total size of the government and save expenditures. One part of that strategy was requiring all federal employees to return to the office and removing the option to work from home.

But why? Although they want to cut the number of officials aggressively, they hope that many of them will simply resign if they are made to go to the office. He wrote, “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the COVID-era privilege of staying home.”

The tech billionaire has been against remote working for years. On X/Twitter, he demanded that employees report to the office. Two years ago, his position on the matter became known at Tesla, as he revealed that he was fine with employees connecting to continue working remotely from home, but only if they had previously stayed in the office full time. Musk stated that anyone who wants to work remotely must be in the office a minimum of 40 hours a week or leave Tesla. This is less than what he asked of the factory workers. Well, it surely looks like the Tesla CEO is all about productivity. But what do you think? Do you agree with his methods? Let us know in the comments.