Elon Musk said working from home during the pandemic ‘tricked’ people into thinking they don’t need to work hard. He’s dead wrong, economists say.

• Elon Musk said Covid-19 lockdowns “tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard.”

• Working from home didn’t make workers less productive, three economists told Insider.

• The only constraint on productivity was when workers had children at home they needed to look after.

Elon Musk is not a fan of remote work.

In the early hours of Wednesday, Musk commented on a tweet which appeared to show an email from himself to Tesla…