'There is great talent all over the world - not just within a one-hour radius of our offices'
Just recently, Tesla chief executive officer (CEO) Elon Musk stirred up controversy after ordering his employees to return to workplaces full time.
Some supported it, some went against it – and the CEO of the software firm Atlassian, which has a U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, belonged in the latter.
In a series of tweets, CEO Scott Farquhar took a swipe on Musk's order to return to offices as "something out of the 1950s."
"News from [Elon Musk] & [Tesla] today feels like something out of the 1950s: 'Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,'" he said on Twitter.
According to Farquhar, it is a very different approach compared to what they are taking over Atlassian.
"Atlassian employees choose everyday where and how they want to work - we call it Team Anywhere. This has been key for our continued growth," the Atlassian CEO said.
"Why? This is the future of how we will work. Highly distributed, highly flexible. Yes, right now it's not perfect, but we have to experiment to get it right."
Farquhar pointed out that 42% of their new hires globally live two hours or more from an office, stressing that "great talent" is all over the world.
"There is great talent all over the world - not just within a [one-hour] radius of our offices," he said.
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