Bosses at Tesla’s German Gigafactory are reportedly knocking on some workers’ doors when they’re at home sick

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Bosses at Tesla’s ******* Gigafactory are reportedly knocking on some workers’ doors when they’re at home *****

Elon Musk said on X that he’d investigate rising rates of illness at Tesla’s Berlin plant.********** Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images

Tesla workers in Germany have received home visits from managers when out *****, a ******* newspaper reported.

Handelsblatt said illness rates at the Berlin Gigafactory are over three times the industry average.

Elon Musk says he will investigate the high ***** leave rates.

Some

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workers have received visits at home from managers while off *****, according to a report from ******* newspaper

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which cited a recording of an internal meeting.

Handelsblatt said that when receiving such visits, some workers threatened to call the police, and others slammed the door in the managers’ faces.

This coincides, Handelsblatt reported, with the rate of employees at

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who called in ***** jumping to 17% in August — over three times the average for the ******* auto industry last year.

Dirk Schulze, a regional chief at the ******* metalworkers’ union IG Metall, told

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the apparent home visits were “absurd.”

He added that Tesla workers report “extremely high workloads,” with management pressuring those who are out ***** as healthy employees are overloaded with additional work.

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has said he will investigate the report.

“This sounds crazy. Looking into it,” Musk replied to X user Alex Tourville, who shared a synopsis of Handelsblatt’s report.

In January,

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as he previewed plans for a mass-market EV.

“We really need the engineers to be living on the line,” the billionaire told investors on an earnings call. “We’ll be sleeping on the line, practically. Not practically, we will be.”

A former worker at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, told The Verge that employees would

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Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

This isn’t the first time that Musk has grown concerned about employees’ absences.

In 2022, shortly after he took over X, Musk complained that because the company’s San Francisco headquarters was about 90% empty, its

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. That office has now been closed, with X’s HQ relocated to Austin, Texas.

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